CHURCHILL, Winston S.

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The River War: A superb presentation copy, inscribed by Churchill on the front free endpaper to his wartime foreign secretary and successor as prime minister, Anthony Eden: "To Anthony from Winston 1954".Eden and Churchill were inseparable for the two most significant decades of their political careers. In the 1930s, during Churchill's wilderness years, Eden was one of the few leading Conservative politicians who opposed appeasement and the Munich Agreement, resigning his first tenure as foreign secretary over the issue. Eden was re-appointed foreign secretary by Churchill in the wartime government, where he served Churchill loyally, skilfully navigating the turbulence of the war and accepting Churchill's preference to personally conduct the most important negotiations with Franklin D. Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin. While in opposition after the war, Eden served under Churchill as deputy leader of the Conservative Party, returned as foreign secretary in Churchill's second government, and on the great man's retirement succeeded him as prime minister and party leader.Eden and Churchill both represented an aristocratic style of Conservative Party and national leadership which, by Churchill's death in 1965, can be said to have ended. Eden was perhaps the last British politician to genuinely share Churchill's vision of Britain as a great imperial power. It is all the more poignant, therefore, that Eden's fall as prime minister following the Suez Crisis in 1956 is generally seen as m

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