The Gathering Storm

The Gathering Storm
The Gathering Storm
The Gathering Storm
The Gathering Storm
The Gathering Storm
The Gathering Storm
The Gathering Storm
The Gathering Storm
The Gathering Storm
The Gathering Storm
The Gathering Storm
The Gathering Storm
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Title: The Gathering Storm
Author(s): CHURCHILL, Wintson S
Category: World History
New / Used: Used
Book Type: Small Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Published: 1948
Published By: Houghton Mifflin
Edition: 1st edition
Pages: 784
Size (mm): 159 w x 220 h x 40 d

Condition

Very good original condition, some damage and repairs to dust jacket, pages immaculate. Images depict all need to know detail.

About

1 of 2 Series

Winston Churchill was not only a statesman and leader of historic proportions, he also possessed substantial literary talents. These two factors combine to make The Gathering Storma unique work. The first volume of Churchill's memoirs, this selection is broken into two parts.

The first, From War to War,consists of Churchill's critical observations on the settlement of World War I and its place in the causes of the Second World War.

The second volume contains letters and memoranda from the British government--of which Churchill was part--as the country plunged unprepared into war.

This stands as the best of history: written as it was made, by the man who made it.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Winston Churchill was born in 1874 and was one of the most significant leaders of the twentieth century. He acted as a war correspondent during the Boer War and after his capture and release, Churchill became a national hero in England, parlaying that celebrity into a political career becoming elected to the Conservative Party. Churchill joined the Liberal Party in 1904. Churchill’s career was volatile during the 1920s and ’30s owing, in part, to his support of the abdication of King Edward VIII, but when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, Churchill was reappointed Lord of the Admiralty.

In 1940, Churchill succeeded Chamberlain as Prime Minister and remained in office until 1945. Churchill successfully guided the nation through World War II, mobilizing and inspiring the British people as well as forging strong ties with American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Churchill remained in Parliament and was re-elected in 1951 and did not resign until 1955 when he was eighty years old.

After retirement, Churchill remained incredibly active, spending his time writing, publishing The History of the English Speaking People and more. That work, along with his six volume history of World War II and The World Crisis, his history of World War I, earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. In 1963 Churchill was made an honorary U.S. citizen. He died in 1965 at the age of ninety.

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