S. first edition, there was also a Canadian Book-of-the-Month Club issue similar in style to the Canadian first edition, but bound instead in red cloth with blue spine panels and no head and foot bands. united under the Crown, and the people of the United States who had broken with the Crown and gone their own way. Another phase looms before us, in which alliance will once more be tested and in which it formidable virtues may be to preserve the Peace and Freedom. This enabled him to utilize the literary team he had assembled for the biography, to which he added dozens of outlines he had solicited from scholars. This is a pre-publication publisher’s review copy of the third volume of Churchill’s sweeping history and last great work.

We would grade this set as “near fine” if not for some minor blistering of the Volume I upper front cover cloth. Bound in1/2 red morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spines, gilt Rampart Lions in spine panels, by Atkinson, head and foot of spines fine, inner and outer hinges fine, internally clean and bright, no previous ownership markings, gift inscription, or bookplate, overall A FINE SET.We have a large supply of individual issues of this famous magazine series, all in very good condition.

For example, King Charles II of Spain is wrongly mentioned as King Charles III, three kings and two generations apart; Lucy Walter, King Charles II of England's mistress or wife, becomes Lucy Waters. The book is indeed very readable (although it is clear that it was written by a team, and the "Churchill touch" is less evident than in his war memoirs), and it doesn't overload the reader with dates and names.Churchill, the child of an American mother and decended from British nobility on his father's side, paid particular heed to the 'special relationship' between Britain and the United States. S. first edition is very similar in appearance to the concurrent Book-of-the-Month Club (BOMC) edition. Churchill s last great work was published nearly 20 years after he penned its first draft in the late 1930s, just after wrapping up [the biography of] Marlborough. We enter the Crimean War; a war with the French and the goal of one day taking the Russian Frontier.