The World Crisis 1911-1914 by Churchill, Winston S - 1923

Thornton Butterworth, 1927. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. The boards are worn. the rear board has damp damage.one ownership inscription,some damp marks.well bound.[J.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

St. John's Press, 2019. Paperback. New. 570 pages. 8.50x5.50x1.43 inches.

London: Thornton Butterworth Limited. 1923. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. Spine ends and corners a little rubbed. Some offset to free endpapers. 2 plates and 6 maps - 5 fold-outs. Preface by the author. Five Appendices. Appendix A: Naval Staff Training; Appendix B: Tables of Fleet Strength; Appendix C: Trade Protection; Appendix D: Mining; Appendix E: First Lord's Minutes. Includes Index. 536 pages. The first book in Churchill's magisterial account of World War One. Actually starts in 1870, setting up the background to the War. Churchill was First Lord of the Admiralty from 1911 - 1915. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 2nd Edition, 2nd Impression. Hardback.

Scribners, 1/1/1924. Hardcover. Very Good. Scribners. Hardcover. Bound in publishers red cloth. Gilt lettering to spine and front board. Good binding and cover. Slight sunning to spine. Shelfwear. Clean, unmarked pages. Ships daily.

London: Thornton Butterfield, 1923-31. First British editions of Churchill's important history of World War I. Octavo, six volumes, original blue cloth. Illustrated throughout with maps and charts. Errata slips to volumes I and IV present. Volume I is signed by the author on the half-title page, "Inscribed by Winston Churchill 1948." In near fine condition. Housed in a custom box. An exceptional set, uncommon in this condition and signed. His American biographer William Manchester wrote that: His masterpiece is The World Crisis, published over a period of several years, 1923 to 1931, a six-volume, 3,261-page account of the Great War, beginning with its origins in 1911 and ending with its repercussions in the 1920s. Magnificently written, it is enhanced by the presence of the author at the highest councils of war and in the trenches as a battalion commander. The British historian Robert Rhodes James wrote that: For all its pitfalls as history, The World Crisis must surely stand as Churchill’s… Read More