Complete set of first editions of this classic history of World War II by one of its central players.
Very good plus in very good plus jackets.
Price: $1,250.00
"Churchill waged the Second World War twice over: as Prime Minister steering his country from disaster in 1940 to victory in 1945, and again as the conflict's principal historian." — David Reynolds
History-maker and history-writer collide and intermingle in THE SECOND WORLD WAR, Churchill's account of the global conflict in which he was a key participant. Though he often played coy with media interest in his plans to write about the war, it is clear that this was always his intention: he took care to retain personal copies of important government documents throughout, granting himself special access to information that other historians could not reference. Churchill's publication is an insider history, as well as a master class of self-promotion in the service of returning to the role of prime minister after a disastrous defeat in 1945. A work of critical importance in our understanding of the world-reshaping conflict, complete in original condition with jackets.
Read more: Woods, A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Winston Churchill, A123(b); Langworth 264; David Reynolds, In Command of History: Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War.
First printings (all). London: Cassell & Co. Ltd, (1948-1952). 6 volumes, 8.25'' x 5.25'' each. Original full matching black cloth with gilt spine titles. In original price-clipped printed jackets (all). Grey decorative endpapers. xvi, 640; xviii, 684, [2]; xviii, 818; xviii, 918; xviii, 674; xviii, 716, [2] pages, each including index. With 11 folding plates in black and red, and single-page maps throughout. Jackets with minor edgwear. Some toning, mostly to spines. Bit of fading to topstain of some volumes. One map in volume one folded unevenly. Foxing to edges of textblock to volume II. Overall, sound and clean.
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