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The Second World War.
The Gathering Storm;
Their Finest Hour;
The Grand Alliance;
The Hinge of Fate;
Closing the Ring;
Triumph and Tragedy.
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Six Volumes Complete
All First Editions
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Author
Winston S. CHURCHILL
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Year of Publication
1948–54
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Publisher
London: Cassell & Co. Ltd.
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Description:
London: Cassell, (1948-54). First Edition. CHURCHILL, Winston.
The Second World War: The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy.
Six volumes. Octavo,
modern half blue morocco gilt, raised bands with red title labels, spine compartments gilt-stamped
with Churchill lion emblems, gilt titles, top edge gilt. Illustrated and embellished with many maps, plans, charts and copy documents from the second world war.
First English editions of Churchill’s WWII masterpiece, part history and part memoir, written after he lost re-election as Prime Minister, handsomely bound.
The six volumes were published separately between 1948 and 1954. With the Second World War, Churchill "pulled himself back from humiliating defeat in 1945, using all his skills as a writer and politician to make his fortune, secure his reputation, and win a second term in Downing Street" (Reynolds, xxiii).
"Winston himself affirmed that "this is not history: this is my case" (Holmes, 285).
Churchill was re-elected to the post of Prime Minister in 1951.
"The Second World War is a great work of literature, combining narrative, historical imagination and moral precept in a form that bears comparison with that of the original master chronicler, Thucydides. It was wholly appropriate that in 1953 Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature" (Keegan, 175).
Although preceded by the American editions, the English editions are generally preferred for their profusion of diagrams, maps, and facsimile documents.
Condition Report
Externally
- Spine – very good condition – recently bound in half leather.
- Joints – very good condition.
- Corners – very good condition.
- Boards – very good condition – cloth.
- Page edges – very good condition – some foxing to the page edges, top edge gilt.
- See above and photos.
Internally
- Hinges – very good condition.
- Front paste down – very good condition – new.
- Front free end paper – very good condition.
- Title – very good condition.
- Pages – very good condition – some foxing and marks, some fold out maps are slightly misfolded.
- Binding – structurally solid and strong. Brand new binding.
- See photos
Publisher: see above.
Publication Date: 1948-1954.
Binding: Hardback
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