The World Crisis: The Aftermath, 1918-1928
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First edition
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. This is a jacketed U.S. first edition, first printing, of the fifth and penultimate volume of Winston Churchill's monumental 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, with the first four volumes spanning the war years 1911-1918 and the final two volumes covering the postwar years 1918-1928 (The Aftermath) and the Eastern theatre (The Eastern Front). Unusual among Churchills many published books, the U.S. first edition of The World Crisis initially preceded the British, making the U.S. the true first edition. The Aftermath addresses some of the complications and disappointments of peace following the Armistice that ultimately set the stage for the Second World War. In 1929, the year The Aftermath was published, Churchill faced his own complications and disappointments. In the 1929 General Election, the Conservatives lost 10 Downing Street and Churchill his Cabinet post as Chancellor of the Exchequer. The ensuing 1930s would come to be called Churchills "Wilderness Years" a decade he spent out of power and out of favor, warning about the dangers of a rising Nazi Germany, often at odds with both hi
- Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
- Year: 1929
- Edition: First Edition
- Printing: first
- Binding: hardcover
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