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This is a lovely edition of the penultimate volume of Winston Churchill s monumental history of the First World War.The British first editions of The World Crisis were originally published in six volumes between 1923 and 1931. This volume, the fifth, deals with the postwar years 1918 to 1928 experience which fundamentally informed the experience and perspective Churchill brought to bear as Britain s leader during the Second World War.This lovely edition was produced in very limited numbers using sheets from the 1974 Collected Works printing that were never bound by the original publisher. The text was photo-reproduced from the British first edition. The result is the superb contents of the collected works - printed on 500-year archival paper - in a binding the same style and color as the British first edition, enabling collectors to put a crisp, new copy on the shelf at a price far less than a British first edition in equivalent condition. The attractive binding is navy blue cloth with the same spine gilt, blind rules, and blind front cover title box as the British first edition. This is a handsome and scarce production. Condition is fine. The binding and contents are nearly pristine. We note only a negligible dent to the upper rear fore edge of the binding and a hint of soiling to the upper fore edges. A quarter of a century before the Second World War endowed him with lasting fame, Winston Churchill played a uniquely critical, controversial, and varied role in the "War to end all wars". Then, being Churchill, he wrote about it.In October 1911, aged 36, Winston Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. He entered the post with the brief to change war strategy and ensure the readiness of the world s most powerful navy. He did both. Nonetheless, when Churchill advocated successfully for a naval campaign in the Dardanelles that ultimately proved disastrous, a convergence of factors sealed his political fate. Churchill was scapegoated and forced to resign, leaving the Admiralty in May 1915. By November, Churchill resigned even his nominal Cabinet posts to spend the rest of his political exile as a lieutenant colonel leading a battalion in the trenches at the Front. Before war's end, Churchill was exonerated by the Dardanelles Commission and rejoined the Government, foreshadowing the political isolation and restoration he would experience two decades later leading up to the Second World War. Despite Churchill's political recovery, the stigma of the Dardanelles lingered. Hence Churchill had more than just literary and financial compulsion to write his history.Reference: Cohen AA1.11. N° de ref. del artículo 007584
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