CHURCHILL, Winston S.

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The Unknown War: First US edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Churchill on the front free endpaper, "Inscribed for O.B. Stephenson by Winston S. Churchill Feb 1 1932".Orlistus Bell Stephenson (1867-1940), manager of the Emerson Bureau lecture agency in Chicago, arranged Churchill's lectures in St Louis on 1 February and in Chicago on 2 and 7 February. On 11 February, Stephenson wrote to Churchill, "If you will come and settle down in Chicago or St. Louis, we will send you to the United States Senate, at least. In time we might even consider you for President of the United States. In any event, we are all for you!" (Churchill Archives, CHAR 1/398B/197).The Unknown War (published as The Eastern Front in Britain) was the final volume of The World Crisis, Churchill's history of the First World War, published in six volumes from 1923 to 1931. This US edition slightly preceded the British edition.Provenance: the collection of Steve Forbes, chairman of Forbes Magazine, and presidential candidate in the 1996 and 2000 US elections.

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