Comprising: The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy.
The Second World War Comprising: The Gathering Storm; Their Finest Hour; The Grand Alliance; The Hinge of Fate; Closing the Ring; Triumph and Tragedy.
Cassell, 1948.
Six volumes, all first editions. Black cloth with gilt lettering in original printed dustwrappers. Illustrated in black and white with maps and diagrams. A near fine set, minor foxing to fore edge of two volumes and vol. V with a bump to the rear board, in very good dustwrappers indeed with minor wear to the extremities, faded red lettering and some rubbing to the spines.
Churchill's work is widely recognised as the single most important historical account of the Second World War. Max Beloff observed that there was no statesman of the 20th century "whose retrospective accounts of the great events in which he has taken part have so dominated subsequent historical thinking." A man who had always primarily made his living by his pen, Churchill was the only major war leader to give an authoritative account of the conflict, and his ringing phrases seeped into the collective memory. As J. H. Plumb noted in his essay in A. J. P. Taylor's Churchill: Four Faces and the Man, "Churchill the historian lies at the very heart of all historiography of the Second World War, and will always remain thereĀ [we still] move down the broad avenues which he drove through war's confusion and complexity".
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