1942 Great Contemporaries

Description

Early Edition, With Dustwrapper

The first Macmillan edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original price-clipped dust wrapper.

Loosely inserted is a small slip stating 'Collection of Steve Forbes', potentially the American publishing executive and politician who is the editor-in-chief of the magazine Forbes.

A collection of twenty-five short biographical essays about famous people, including: Joseph Chamberlain, Hindenburg, Lawrence of Arabia, Douglas Haig, Arthur James Balfour, Adolf Hitler, and King George V, amongst others.

This work was written by Sir Winston Churchill, the British statesman, military officer, and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

First published in 1937, this edition is the first published by Macmillan and Co.