Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer).- "Terminal" Pocket Guide, folding map, a few short tears to folds, original wrappers, lower cover signed by Winston Churchill (signature a little smudged), early tape and surface abrasion to lower cover, creasing and light surface soiling to upper cover, small 4to, [1945].

⁂ A copy of the British delegate map for the Potsdam conference signed by one of its key figures. The Potsdam Conference (codenamed Operation Terminal by the British) was convened by the USA, USSR and UK to discuss the post-war agreement. Though Churchill had recently lost the election to Attlee (who was also in attendance) he nevertheless played an important role.

Provenance: Sir John Peck, K.C.M.G. (1913-1995). Peck joined the Civil Service in 1936. Appointed Assistant Private Secretary to First Lord of the Admiralty. When Churchill became P.M. in May 1940, he was appointed as one of four Private Secretaries, and was the only one to serve him throughout the war. Following the loss of the General Election in 1945, he served Attlee briefly, and then transferred to the Foreign Office in 1946. Latterly he held a number of roles within the Civil Service before his final appointment as British Ambassador to Dublin 1970-73.