1951-54 The Second World War

Description

Fine Binding, First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding

The first edition, first impressions, of Volumes IV, V, and VI.

Finely bound in a smart unsigned crushed morocco binding, with rampant lions in gilt to the spines.

Winston Churchill's influential work discussing the Second World War, his first hand account of the monumental war in which, beside the antagonist, he was possibly the most important figure.

Volume IV, 'The Hinge of Fate', published in 1951. Illustrated with four folding maps and one folding plate.

Volume V, 'Closing the Ring', published in 1952. Illustrated with three folding maps and one folding plate.

Volume VI, 'Triumph and Tragedy', published in 1954. Illustrated with eleven folding maps.

Each volume is illustrated with in-text maps and diagrams.

Collated, complete.