CHURCHILL, Winston S.

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The Second World War. First UK editions, handsomely bound, of Churchill's masterpiece, the single most important historical account of the Second World War and a major factor in Churchill being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953. As Max Beloff observed, 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". Churchill was contractually obliged to allow the US editions to be published first, but he treated the UK editions as definitive and reserved his final proof corrections for them.

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