Wingate Orde (10 results)

Second impression in publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains 256 printed pages of text with monochrome maps and photographs throughout. In very near Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 1840372893 BURMA, BURMESE (Myanmar).

First appearance in print of this report of a lecture by Colonel Bernard Fergusson describing his command experience in Wingate's legendary Chindit expeditions. In 1943-44, he served as first a column and then a brigade commander, leading the mission to sabotage the bridge at Bongyaung and undertaking a formidable march southwards to attack the airfields at Indaw. Following his graduation from Sandurst, Fergusson (1911-1980) was posted to Palestine as an intelligence officer and as Wavell's ADC. There, he became acquainted with Wingate, the architect of the Special Night Squads, "who offered him lessons in how to hunt down and eliminate Arab suspects" (Elkins, p. 442). In 1942, he was recruited into the embryonic Chindit forces and given responsibility in 1943 for an independent column during the first incursion into Japanese territory across the Chindwin and the Irrawaddy. One year later, with the Chindits expanded to six brigades, Fergusson took command of the 16th brigade, marching southwards from Ledo to central Burma across 8500-foot mountain ranges and through heavy rains. However, "largely due to Wingate's unpredictable orders and counter-orders, everything fell apart. After a futile assault at Indaw, 16th brigade was soon flown out to India, and its sacrificial efforts were denied their due reward." (ODNB). In 1943, Wingate was awarded the Royal Central Asian Society's Lawrence of Arabia Memorial Medal for his creation of the Chindits and his contribution to guerilla warfare. In 1970, the author published his autobiography, The Trumpet in the Hall, in which he expanded on Wingate and his distinctive contribution to modern military strategy. Caroline Elkins, Legacy of Violence, 2022. Large octavo, pp. 276-288 within the journal. With sketch map of the Chindwin and Irrawaddy region. Original red card wrappers, spine and front cover printed in black. Covers lightly toned and creased, nick to head of front wrapper and first few leaves, edges and title page moderately foxed, text clean and bright. A very good copy indeed.

Offprint, one of the author's retained copies, kept as part of his personal papers until their dispersal in the late 1990s. In 1933, towards the end of his attachment to the Sudan Defence Force, Wingate set out with Royal Geographical Society support in search of the Lost Army of Cambyses and the oasis of Zerzura. The expedition, while unsuccessful, marked an important point in his life, for it "proved to him that he had the inner strength to live and survive in an unforgiving environment" (Royle) and and prepared him for his time in Palestine and with the Chindits in Burma. His article is written with "the voice of the true desert traveller, of the man who swears never again to split his head in long glaring days on the march only to discover that a month of ease fills him with impatience to be back in the sands to inflict on himself the same torments once more" (Royle). Provenance: by descent to Lieutenant-Colonel Orde Jonathan Wingate (1944-2000), Wingate's son; sold as part of the dispersal of Wingate's papers, Sotheby's, 11 June 1996, Lot 373; purchased by Steve Forbes, chairman of Forbes Magazine and presidential candidate in the 1996 and 2000 US elections. Trevor Royle, Orde Wingate: A Man of Genius, 1903-1944, 2014. Octavo, pp. 28. With 2 half-tone plates, colour folding route map. Original blue card wrappers, sewn as issued, front cover lettered in black. Wrappers bright with just light marking, near-fine.

Almost certainly the first Bible the deeply religious Wingate ever owned, inscribed on the front free endpaper verso, "O. C. Wingate, 'Marchworth', Reigate, 26th Feb. 15. Proverbs IX.10." His Christian upbringing and Old Testament knowledge were at the heart of his Zionism: "There is only one important book on the subject, the Bible, and I've read it thoroughly" (quoted in Skyes). Wingate was born into a strongly premillennialist family. One of his biographers notes that Sunday afternoons in Reigate were devoted to Bible study, the children presented with their own copy when they had memorized enough of the Old Testament. Outshone by his sisters, Wingate was motivated to study in earnest. This all "had a lasting effect on Orde: throughout his life his colleagues were astonished by his ability to recite chunks of the Old Testament and the language of his written prose was often enriched by his knowledge of the King James Bible" (Royle). In Palestine, Wingate carried a copy of the Bible at all times. Operationally, he "tied the concept of Jewish self-defence to the biblical narratives of conquest and settlement. Just as Joshua and the Israelites conquered Canaan, and Joshua's successors, the Judges, defended the Israelites against enemies within and without, the modern 'Israelites' would take back and then defend their ancestral patrimony" (Goldman, p. 29). The only other known Wingate Bible has thus acquired a pseudo-relic status: it is now housed at the Sturman Museum, Israel, having been air-dropped by Wingate's wife to besieged Jewish soldiers, some of whom had fought under Wingate, during the battle of Ramot Naftali (1948). The proverb referenced in the inscription states that "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; and the knowledge of the holy is understanding." Below are two other contemporary inscriptions, in his less studied hand, referencing Psalm 73 ("Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart") and the family's address in Godalming, Surrey, to which they moved from Reigate in 1916 (not 1914, as sometimes stated). Wingate has underlined other Proverbs verses in red pencil and written marginalia in Luke. Provenance: by descent to Lieutenant-Colonel Orde Jonathan Wingate (1944-2000), Wingate's son; sold as part of the dispersal of Wingate's papers, Sotheby's, 11 June 1996, Lot 374; purchased by Steve Forbes, chairman of Forbes Magazine and presidential candidate in the 1996 and 2000 US elections. Shalom Goldman, Zeal for Zion: Christians, Jews, & the Idea of the Promised Land; Trevor Royle, Orde Wingate: A Man of Genius, 1903-1944, 2014; Christopher Sykes, Orde Wingate, 2022. Octavo. Colour maps in text. Original black leatherette, spine lettered in gilt, spine and covers stamped in blind, green endpapers, edges gilt. Housed in grey archival box. Completely unrestored, text block now detached from covers, lifting portion at foot of spine, pages worn, most of title page now lost: a much-used copy.

An album commemorating the man known in Israel as simply "the friend". Like her husband, Lorna Wingate was a committed Zionist; after his death, she lobbied intensively for countries to back the 1947 UN partition resolution. In the eyes of David Ben-Gurion, Wingate was the de facto founder of the Israel defence Forces, while Winston Churchill mourned him in 1944 as "a man of genius. I hoped he might become a man of destiny" (10 September 1944, letter to Lorna Wingate). Dedicated three years after Wingate's death, the memorial forest was funded almost entirely by donations raised within Palestine. "The first saplings were placed on Jewish National Fund land at the feet of Mount Gilboa, overlooking the plain of Esdraelon, at a largely attended ceremony. The forest is intended to demonstrate Jews' esteem for the man whom Palestine Jews gave the rare accolade of the title 'Ha'ye-did [the friend]'" (New York Times). The album opens with views of Nahalal, the Masaryk and Balfour forests, and the surroundings of Ein Harod, where Wingate established his Special Night Squads headquarters and training centre. Photographs show a banner at the site of the forest with verses from Ezekiel ("In the mountains of the height of Israel will I plant it; and it will bring forth boughs and bear fruit"), the crowd on the day of the ceremony, and a soldier and policemen planting saplings. The closing shots are of children at Ein Harod, evoking a future made possible by Wingate's zeal. Although it is unclear whether Lorna Wingate attended the event, she visited Israel the following year during the Arab-Israeli War. The Sturman Museum has one of Orde Wingate's Bibles, which she air-dropped to besieged Jewish soldiers during the battle of Ramot Naftali. Provenance: by descent to Lieutenant-Colonel Orde Jonathan Wingate (1944-2000), Wingate's son; sold as part of the dispersal of Wingate's papers, Sotheby's, 11 June 1996, Lot 373; purchased by Steve Forbes, chairman of Forbes Magazine and presidential candidate in the 1996 and 2000 US elections. "Wingate is Honored by Palestine Jews", New York Times, 19 February 1947. Landscape quarto album (240 x 335 mm). With 18 gelatin silver photographs (each c. 110 x 85 mm), tipped to white paper leaves, manuscript captions in English and Hebrew. Original vellum, leaves fixed with vellum chord through holes, manuscript title pages in English and Hebrew. Vellum marked, front inner hinge dusty, couple of marks on title page, text just affected: in very good condition.

From the Wingate family papers: an album capturing a visit to Israel by Orde Wingate's son, during which he unveiled plaques and attended events commemorating his father's commitment to Zionism and command of the Special Night Squads. The album opens with a photograph of a stone tablet "in memory of. Israel's brave and true friend." Around 20 years old, Orde Jonathan Wingate (1944--2000), is shown chatting with officials, admiring exhibits in a museum, and at an open-air unveiling of the tablet. Over a dozen photographs document at least two large-scale gatherings, speakers standing beneath the general's stern portrait. Provenance: sold as part of the dispersal of the Orde Wingate papers, Sotheby's, 11 June 1996, Lot 373; purchased by Steve Forbes, chairman of Forbes Magazine and presidential candidate in the 1996 and 2000 US elections. Landscape album (210 x 300 mm). With 46 gelatin silver photographs (60 x 60 to 125 x 170 mm) mounted on 11 black card leaves, tissue guards. Original brown leatherette, spine tied through punch-holes with white cord, inlaid decoration on front cover. Photographs clear and bright, light wear and marking to album; fine.

Presentation copy of this scarce offprint, inscribed by the author on the front cover, "Col. de Lancey Forth, with the author's cordial regards." Likely passed by the recipient to Orde Wingate in the early 1930s, while the latter was planning his own quest to find the Zerzura oasis, this copy remained in the Wingate family papers until their dispersal in 1996. John Ball (1872-1941), Director of Desert Surveys in Egypt, undertook several expeditions to the Libyan Desert in the 1920s, and his "Problems of the Libyan Desert" inspired a generation of explorers, including the young Lieutenant Wingate, to search for the mythical site of Zerzura. Wingate, serving in the Sudan Defence Force, shared this oasis fascination with Colonel Nowell Barnard de Lancey Forth (1879-1933), a former camel corps commander, whose efforts to locate the site earned him election to the Royal Geographical Society, the Order of the Nile, and the Order of the Mejidieh. While planning his RGS-backed expedition in the early 1930s, Wingate consulted both Ball and de Lancey Forth as to his proposed route. His 1933 search for Zerzura marked an important point in Wingate's life, for it "proved to him that he had the inner strength to live and survive in an unforgiving environment" (Royle) and prepared him for his time in Palestine and with the Chindits in Burma. Provenance: by descent to Lieutenant-Colonel Orde Jonathan Wingate (1944-2000), Wingate's son, and sold as part of Lot 373 in the dispersal of Wingate's papers, Sotheby's, 11 June 1996. It was purchased by Steve Forbes, the chairman of Forbes Magazine and a presidential candidate in the 1996 and 2000 US elections. Trevor Royle, Orde Wingate: A Man of Genius, 1903-1944, 2014. Octavo. With 10 half-tone plates, large folding colour map, illustrations in text. Original blue card wrappers, front cover lettered in black. Spine repaired, covers with a few losses and closed tears, map folds repaired on verso with archival tape: a good copy only.

From the Wingate family papers: a series of photographs taken five years after the institute, Israel's leading centre of physical education, opened its doors to students. The idea of founding a centre in Orde Wingate's honour was approved by the National Committee in May 1944, shortly after his death. Arieh Sharon, a future winner of the Israel Prize for Architecture (1962), designed the site. Only 18 years old, Orde Jonathan Wingate is shown being guided around by the administrative director, Baruch Bagg (1901-1993). He examines the institute's plans, admires the main building, and tours the wider campus, where construction is still in progress and where he plants a commemorative tree. One excellent image captures Wingate looking at his father's portrait on the wall, and in another he is halfway through signing his famous surname in the guest book. Provenance: sold as part of the dispersal of the Wingate papers, Sotheby's, 11 June 1996, Lot 373; purchased by Steve Forbes, chairman of Forbes Magazine and presidential candidate in the 1996 and 2000 US elections. Landscape album (240 x 335 mm). With 12 large gelatin silver photographs (120 x 165 mm to 140 x 180 mm), corner-mounted on black card leaves with tissue guards, manuscript title leaf and captions. Blue leatherette, spine tied with blue cord, gilt vignette on front cover. One photograph, captioned "With the staff of the institute", no longer present. Light wear and marking to album, photographs bright, one creased at corner: a well-preserved album.

Offprint, presented by Wingate to his mother-in-law, Alice Ivy Hay, with her inscription on the front cover, "Alice I. Hay, Given to me by Orde." In 1963, Hay published an important biography of Wingate, There Was a Man of Genius: Letters to My Grandson Orde Jonathan Wingate. In 1933, towards the end of his attachment to the Sudan Defence Force, Wingate set out with Royal Geographical Society support in search of the Lost Army of Cambyses and the oasis of Zerzura. The expedition, while unsuccessful, marked an important point in his life, for it "proved to him that he had the inner strength to live and survive in an unforgiving environment" (Royle) and prepared him for his time in Palestine and with the Chindits in Burma. His article is written with "the voice of the true desert traveller, of the man who swears never again to split his head in long glaring days on the march only to discover that a month of ease fills him with impatience to be back in the sands to inflict on himself the same torments once more" (Royle). Returning to Britain by ship at the conclusion of the expedition, Wingate met Hay (née Wigmore, 1895-1982) and her daughter Lorna (1917-1990), and he married Lorna two years later. Born in Australia, Hay was a talented musician and a graduate of the Royal College of Music in London and later the founder of the Wigmore Music Library at the University of Western Australia. As a young woman, "she persuaded (Sir) Hubert Parry, the director, to allow her to add voice to her repertoire. She played in college symphony concerts conducted by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford and in chamber music ensembles alongside (Sir) Eugene Goossens and (Sir) Bernard Heinze, and took part in opera productions" (ADNB). Provenance: by descent to Lieutenant-Colonel Orde Jonathan Wingate (1944-2000), Wingate's son; sold as part of the dispersal of Wingate's papers, Sotheby's, 11 June 1996, Lot 373; purchased by Steve Forbes, chairman of Forbes Magazine and presidential candidate in the 1996 and 2000 US elections. Trevor Royle, Orde Wingate: A Man of Genius, 1903-1944, 2014. Octavo, pp. 28. With 2 half-tone plates, colour folding route map. Original blue card wrappers, sewn as issued, front cover lettered in black. Wrappers lightly marked and creased: near-fine.

A scarce offprint, traced in two institutions only, from the papers of Major-General Orde Charles Wingate. Newbold's study was good preparatory reading for Wingate's 1933 journey across the Libyan desert in search of the Lost Army of Cambyses and the oasis of Zerzura. The expedition, while unsuccessful, marked an important point in his life, for it "proved to him that he had the inner strength to live and survive in an unforgiving environment" (Royle). Sir Douglas Newbold (1894-1945) was of an earlier generation of explorer, entering the Sudan Civil Service in 1920 and serving in the region until his death. In late 1927, Newbold and W. B. K. Shaw undertook a 1,000-mile camel trek through the desert from el Obeid to Wadi Halfa, conducting cartographic surveys and charting archaeological and rock-art sites. Wingate served as a lieutenant in the Sudan Defence Force between 1928 and 1933, before undertaking his famous work as an intelligence officer in Palestine and with the Chindits in Burma. This offprint passed by descent to Lieutenant-Colonel Orde Jonathan Wingate (1944-2000), Wingate's son, and was sold as part of Lot 373 in the dispersal of Wingate's papers, Sotheby's, 11 June 1996. It was purchased by Steve Forbes, the chairman of Forbes Magazine and a presidential candidate in the 1996 and 2000 US elections. Copies are held by Durham University and the King Abdul-Aziz Al Saoud Foundation for Islamic Studies and Human Sciences. Trevor Royle, Orde Wingate: A Man of Genius, 1903-1944, 2014. Quarto. Half-tone frontispiece and 9 plates, illustrations and map in text. Original buff card wrappers, front cover lettered in black. Wrappers scuffed and marked, loss at head of spine, spotting internally: very good.