Signed book: The Second World War: The Gathering Storm. First edition. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1948. Hardcover with dust jacket and a custom clamshell case, 6 x 8.75, 784 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free end page in fountain pen, "From Winston S. Churchill, to Mrs. R. E. K. Hill, 1948." Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG/G, with losses and repaired edge tears to the dust jacket. Housed in a handsome navy blue clamshell case, lettered in gilt on the morocco spine.
As Britain's prime minister for most of the Second World War, Winston Churchill had an unparalleled perspective on the conflict. After leaving office in 1945, he produced a remarkable six-volume account—The Gathering Storm being Vol. I—which holds a very high place in the ranks of nonfiction books of the 20th century. The comprehensive series was a major success in both Great Britain and the United States, and was largely responsible for his being awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize for Literature 'for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values.'
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