The Second World War (Chartwell Edition)
London: Educational Book Company Ltd, [1955]. Color frontispieces, black and white photographs, maps. Cloth over boards. Tall octavos. Very good to fine. Boards of Vol. III slightly bowed. A few scratches to some spine labels. Bound in red cloth over boards with red topstain and red endpapers. Leather spine labels with gilt-stamped titles and rules. Upper board of each volume has an embossed profile portrait of Churchill on leather, gilt rules, and titles in gilt at lower fore corner.
The unparalleled history of World War II. As he notes in his Preface, Winston Churchill was probably the only person to have gone through both World War I and World War II holding high executive office.
This "Chartwell" edition was the first illustrated edition of the work,and includes photographs and additional colored maps that were not in the original Cassell edition.
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