CHURCHILL, Winston S.

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Arms and the Covenant. First edition, first impression, scarce in the dust jacket, of this important collection of Churchill's speeches on foreign policy, given during his "wilderness years" 1928 to 1938. This copy is from the collection of Churchill's bibliographer Ronald Cohen.The speeches warned of the dangers of a re-armed Germany, the threat of Hitler and Mussolini, and the inevitable failure of a policy of appeasement. These warnings were unpopular and largely unheeded, but soon proved to be remarkably prescient. The collection was also published later that year in America as While England Slept.Provenance: Ronald Cohen, with his ownership inscription in pencil on the front free endpaper. Cohen's Bibliography of the Writings of Sir Winston Churchill, published in three volumes in 2006, is the authoritative source for collectors, librarians, and dealers.

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