CHURCHILL, Winston S.

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His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963. First edition of the most complete collection of the speeches of Churchill, handsomely bound. The set is renowned by scholars as "mammoth and invaluable" (Langworth, p. 349), and "an extraordinarily thorough and dependable resource" (Cohen, p. 1,035)."Prior to this work, four-fifths of Churchill's speeches had never been published in volume form. To correct this, and to coincide with the Centenary of Churchill's birth, a team of Columbia University graduate students spent six months combing Parliamentary records, newspapers, pamphlets, Conservative Party and BBC broadcast transcripts. The result was eight massive volumes totalling nearly 9,000 pages" (Langworth, p. 349).

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