The Dawn of Liberation.
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First edition
London: Cassell and Company Ltd,, 1945. First edition, attractively bound, of the fifth volume of Churchill's war speeches. "Its array of speeches, messages, broadcasts and replies to Parliamentary questions involve the last great events of the war: D-Day and the invasion of France, the Soviet steamroller in the East... There is also a looking ahead, a surveying of the future, that is not evident in the earlier war speech volumes" (Langworth, p. 227). Octavo (211 x 134 mm). With 3 half-tone photographic plates including frontispiece. Contemporary red half morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine lettered in gilt, red cloth sides, pink endpapers, top edge gilt. Light foxing. A near-fine copy. Cohen A214.1.a. Richard M. Langworth, A Connoisseur's Guide to the Books of Sir Winston Churchill, 1998.
- Year: 1945
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: hardcover
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