The Holy Bible A 1940 Second World War Gift From British Prime Minister Winston S Churchills Only

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$2,750 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

London: Oxford University Press, Undated. Full leather. This almost painfully poignant gift provides a single, vignette snapshot of impending loss suffered by the family of British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill during the Second World War. This finely-bound Bible was a 1940 gift from Winston Churchill’s only niece to her dying mother, Winston’s sister-in-law, on the last Christmas before she lost her battle with cancer. The three-line

• Binding: Leather

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