Blood, Sweat, and Tears
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, (1941). First US Edition. Black and white frontispiece portrait. Half leather and marbled boards. Octavo. x, 462 pages. About fine. Bound in marbled paper over boards with dark blue leather fore corners and spine with five raised bands. Gilt-stamped titles, rules, and ornaments to spine. Marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Just a hint of fading to spine.
Handsomely bound volume of Mr. Churchill's speeches made from May, 1938 to February, 1941, as England was dragged into World War II. Churchill's earlier speeches, as a Member of Parliament, had been warnings about the danger of England's appeasement policies and laggardly rearmament. The speeches in this volume see the fulfillment of his worst fears.
Churchill became Prime Minister in early May, 1940 and this volume contains nearly a year of his speeches in that capacity, including "Their Finest Hour."
Published in England under the title "Into Battle," this American edition includes one speech not in the British edition--"United States Co-Operation," delivered January 9, 1941. A stunning volume of his early wartime speeches.
Ref. WOODS A 66(b).
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