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This is a jacketed British first edition, final printing, of the first volume of Winston S. Churchill's famous war speeches. Into Battle contains Churchill s speeches from May 1938, when Churchill was still out of favor and out of power, to November 1940, six months after Churchill became wartime Prime Minister. Between 1941 and 1946, Churchill's war speeches were published in seven individual volumes. The British first editions are visually striking, but were printed on cheap "War Economy Standard" paper, bound in coarse cloth, and wrapped in bright, fragile dust jackets. They proved highly susceptible to spotting, soiling, and fading, so the passage of time has been hard on most surviving first editions. In this first war speeches volume the great battle of the twentieth century and Churchill's life begins.There were twelve printings of this edition. This twelfth and final printing was issued in May 1947, more than six years after the first printing, but is nonetheless quite similar in appearance to the first printing; the binding is the same, as are both faces and the spine of the dust jacket. Condition is good plus in a good plus dust jacket. The blue cloth binding is unfaded, square, and tight with bright spine gilt. Shelf wear is confined to the bottom edges. The contents have no previous ownership marks but do show spotting, substantially confined to the first and final leaves and the page edges. The dust jacket is unclipped, retaining the original lower front flap price. The spine is toned. The spine ends have shallow strip losses. The jacket shows moderate overall wear and is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.During his long public life, Winston Churchill played many roles worthy of note - Member of Parliament for more than half a century, soldier and war correspondent, author of scores of books, ardent social reformer, combative cold warrior, Nobel Prize winner, painter. But Churchill's preeminence as a historical figure owes most to his indispensable leadership during the Second World War, when his soaring and defiant oratory sustained his countrymen and inspired the free world. Of Churchill, Edward R. Murrow said: "He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle." When Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953, it was partly "…for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values." Reference: Cohen A142.1.m, Woods/ICS A66(a.12), Langworth p.204. First edition, twelfth and final printing. N° de ref. del artículo 007384
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