Winston S. Churchill | Shall We Commit Suicide? New York: Eilert Printing Co., 1924

Winston S. Churchill

Shall We Commit Suicide? New York: Eilert Printing Co., 1924

12-page wire-stitched pamphlet (8 x 4 in.; 203 x 102 mm). Wrappers printed in black; lightly sunned and a touch foxed.

8 x 4 inches

ONE OF THE SCARCEST AND MOST IMPORTANT OF CHURCHILL PAMPHLETS

Churchill presages the proliferation of chemical and (hypothetically) atomic weapons in this ominously prophetic essay, which first appeared in the September 1924 issue of Nash’s Pall Mall Magazine before being published in the U.S. as this stand-alone pamphlet: "Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess secret power to destroy a whole block of buildings nay, to blast a township at a stroke? ... As for Poison Gas and Chemical Warfare in all its forms, only the first chapter has been written of a terrible book."

REFERENCE:

Cohen A74.1; Woods A33