George Stern , literary enfant terrible of London, has discovered Mr Irving’s 1981 book The War Between the Generals () War between the authors [ Mr Irving’s reply ] JUST to say I had a piece of luck – I found a copy of The War Between the Generals , Penguin edition, in a thrift shop. Great, amusing, revealing! Surely the Purdey shotguns which Bedell Smith ordered on official money — these would costs tens of thousands nowadays — did he not get into trouble?
As I recall he was later an aide to Dwight D Eisenhower when the latter was president. You one said that in some way which I can’t recall the book was blotted out by some other event and not sold as much as it should. Anyway it deserved wide sale. All best wishes George Stern