Winston Churchill

The World Crisis 1911-1914, signed first edition, by Winston Churchill.

• Sold as a set of 5 volumes in 6.
• Winston Churchill (British).
• London: Thornton Butterworth, 1923-1931.
• Octavos.
• Volume V 'Inscribed by/ Winston S. Churchill/ June 21 1929.'
• Staggered publication from 1923 - 1931.
• Vols I, IV & V with the errata slip.
• Illustrated throughout with portraits, maps and plans, some folding.
• Publisher's navy blue cloth, blind embossed panels to upper boards, gilt lettering to spine.

A superlative account of the prelude to and events of the First World War. It is still regarded as a defining work of twentieth-century history, reconstructing the action on the Western and Eastern Fronts, the wars at sea and in the air and the advent of tanks and U-boats. Churchill describes the Lusitania's sinking, the heroics of the Battle of Jutland, Verdun's 'soul-stirring frenzy', the bloodshed of Gallipoli, the Somme and Passchendaele, as well as the USA's entry into the conflict. It confirmed the author's reputation as a brilliant historian.