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All are tightly bound with intact endpapers and strong hinges. Book Condition: Very Good+: Very light wear to sharp corners, edges and spine ends. DESCRIPTION: Complete six volume set in DJs over black cloth Language: English. Churchill, a gigantic contribution to history by a historical giant…” (Contemporary New York Times review).Hardcover. “So with Triumph and Tragedy end the Memoirs of the Second World War by Winston S. It is also the work that supposedly secured him the Nobel Prize for Literature. (Though he was not allowed to reveal any official government secrets.) The book was a bestseller, and would make Churchill – for the first time in his life – a truly wealthy man. “I will leave judgments on this matter to history, but I will be one of the historians.” Interestingly enough, Churchill was permitted by Clement Atlee and the Labour government – which had come to office in 1945 – to be allowed access to many of the government archives, in order to help furnish his narrative. Churchill was already a well regarded and popular writer when he ascended to the Prime Ministership in 1940, and he made no secret of his intention to one day write a history of the conflict which was only then beginning.
Churchill’s work is, unsurprisingly, mostly focused on the British perspective of the conflict – and the book is as much memoir as it is history. The six volume classic includes: The Gathering Storm Their Finest Hour The Grand Alliance The Hinge of Fate Closing the Ring and Triumph and Tragedy.Ĭhurchill’s immensely popular history of The Second World War. Just about Fine condition overall with some fading to the top-stains and one previous owner's name neatly written on the first blank leaf of volume 4. A lovely set bound in half morocco over marbled boards, with gilt spines and raised bands, plain endpapers. The Second World War (Finely bound in 6 vols.)
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