Step by Step 1936-1939
CHURCHILL, Winston S.
WINSTON'S PRE-WAR FOREBODINGS: IN FULL MOROCCO
Published: Thornton Butterworth, [1939]
Stock code: 32702
Price: £685.00
8vo., First Edition, with full-page map in the text and folding map coloured in outline; handsomely bound in full burgundy morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made slip-case, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
Collection of 82 chronologically arranged articles on foreign policy and defence written by Churchill in the years immediately preceding WWII. They appeared originally in the (London) newspapers 'Evening Standard' (13 March 1936 to 5 April 1938) and 'Daily Telegraph' (14 April 1938 to 15 May 1939). Many of them contain his all-too-prophetic warnings about Hitler and the Nazis. Woods, A45