Winston Churchill

Finely bound set of first editions of the complete history of World War II by one of its central players.

• Sold as a set of 6.
• Winston Churchill (English).
• London: Cassell & Co. Ltd, (1948–1952).
• xvi, 640; xviii, 684; xviii, 818; xviii, 918; x, 674; xviii, 716 pages, each including index.
• Includes 11 folding plates in black and red, with single-page maps throughout.
• Bound in modern half blue goatskin, blue cloth boards, raised bands, red goatskin spine labels, gilt-stamped lion devices in spine compartments, top edges gilt.

History maker and history writer collide and intermingle in The Second World War, Churchill's account of the global conflict in which he was a key participant. Though he often played coy with media interest in his plans to write about the war, it is clear that this was always his intention; he took care to retain personal copies of important government documents throughout, granting himself special access to information that other historians could not reference. Churchill's publication is an insider history, as well as a master class of self-promotion in the service of returning to the role of prime minister after a disastrous defeat in 1945. A work of critical importance in our understanding of the world-reshaping conflict, bound in a classic Churchillian style.