AS PRETTY A ‘SECOND WORLD WAR’ WINSTON CHURCHILL SET TO EVER COME TO MARKET
First editions of Winston Churchill’s masterpiece. Octavo, six volumes, inscribed in Volume 1 by Winston Churchill in bold black fountain pen; bound in full blue morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt, gilt inner dentelles stamp-, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation. “Winston Churchill 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). Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 best non-fiction books of the twentieth century. It placed number one on the 100 best non-fiction books of the twentieth century by National Review magazine.