"Burn Everything" - A remarkable archive accumulated by Charles Barker, Chief Clerk to British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill throughout the Second World War, including a wartime presentation copy of The World Crisis, Churchill's history of the First World War, inscribed and dated by Churchill as a 1942 Christmas gift, as well as 70 individual items, including additional books, personal correspondence, photographs, and various mementos and ephemera, such as noteworthy invitations, tickets, and passes
London and various: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. and various other agencies,entities, and individuals, 1941-1979. This remarkable archive belonged to Charles Barker and centers on his service as Chief Clerk to British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill from 1940-1945, throughout Churchill's Second World War premiership. At the heart of the archive..... More