The Great War.
First Edition of Winston Churchill's The Great War
The Great War.
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
Item Number: 136022
London: George Newnes Limited, 1934.
First edition in book form of the first illustrated edition of Churchill’s The World Crisis, with hundreds of photographic illustrations, maps, and plans. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated throughout with maps and photographs. With a new Foreword by Churchill dated August 1933. In near fine condition.
"Not only the best account of the most tremendous convulsion the world has ever seen, but one of the most brilliant treatises on war that has ever been written" (Spectator). Churchill's monumental history of World War I was originally published in six volumes as The World Crisis, 1923-31; this first illustrated and abridged edition was originally published in 26 parts issued fortnightly by Newnes from September 1933 to October 1934.
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