The World Crisis 1911-1918

by Winston S. Churchill

$250 · Offered by Biblio

London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1941. Macmillan issue from first edition plates, only printing. Hardcover. This collectible wartime reprint is the first Macmillan issue of the abridged and revised single-volume edition of Winston Churchill’s acclaimed history of the First World War. A quarter of a century before the Second World War endowed him with lasting fame, Winston Churchill played a uniquely critical, controversial, and varied role in the “War to end all wars”. Then, being Churchill, he wrote about it. The World Crisis was originally published in six volumes between 1923 and 1931. After completion of the sixth and final volume, a first abridged and revised edition followed, also in 1931. This important edition covering the war years 1911-1918 is not just an abridgement. It incorporates revisions by Churchill with new material, including a whole new chapter on the Battle of the Marne, as well as a new introduction. This first abridged and revised edition – The World Crisis 1911-1918 – was published by Thornton Butterworth just as Churchill was beginning his “wilderness years” decade. Churchill spent nearly the entirety of the 1930s out of power and out of favor, frequently at odds with both his Government and prevailing public sentiment. But in 1940 Churchill became wartime Prime Minister. And also in 1940, Thornton Butterworth went under and a different publisher, Macmillan, acquired the rights to several of Churchill’s books. Macmillan produced three printings of The Wo

• Publisher: Macmillan & Co. Ltd.
• Year: 1941
• Edition: Macmillan issue from first edition plates, only printing
• Printing: first
• Binding: hardcover

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