CHURCHILL, Winston S. Printed newspaper proof, "The Second World War: Their Finest Hour," a corrected draft of the first installment of Churchill's Second World War memoirs to be published in the Daily Telegraph .
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Printed newspaper proof, "The Second World War: Their Finest Hour," a corrected draft of the first installment of Churchill's Second World War memoirs to be published in the Daily Telegraph . Broadsheet folio (25½ x 10½in.), chipped at edges, closed tears at folds; with a 2 February 1949 memo from a secretary ("E.G.") to Churchill including an endorsement at bottom by Denis Kelly: "Miss Mack Here is your proof, due to appear tomorrow morning, amended by Mr. Churchill in his own hand." "NOW AT LAST THE SLOWLY GATHERED, LONG-PENT-UP FURY OF THE STORM BROKE UPON US" Churchill puts the finishing touches on this first English newspaper installment of his masterly account of the dire situation facing him upon his assumption of power as Prime Minister in May 1940. The French Army was about to collapse. "Within six weeks we were to find ourselves alone, almost disarmed, with triumphant Germany and Italy at our throats, with the whole of Europe in Hitler's power, and Japan glowering on the other side of the globe."
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Printed newspaper proof, "The Second World War: Their Finest Hour," a corrected draft of the first installment of Churchill's Second World War memoirs to be published in the Daily Telegraph .
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Printed newspaper proof, "The Second World War: Their Finest Hour," a corrected draft of the first installment of Churchill's Second World War memoirs to be published in the Daily Telegraph . Broadsheet folio (25½ x 10½in.), chipped at edges, closed tears at folds; with a 2 February 1949 memo from a secretary ("E.G.") to Churchill including an endorsement at bottom by Denis Kelly: "Miss Mack Here is your proof, due to appear tomorrow morning, amended by Mr. Churchill in his own hand." "NOW AT LAST THE SLOWLY GATHERED, LONG-PENT-UP FURY OF THE STORM BROKE UPON US" Churchill puts the finishing touches on this first English newspaper installment of his masterly account of the dire situation facing him upon his assumption of power as Prime Minister in May 1940. The French Army was about to collapse. "Within six weeks we were to find ourselves alone, almost disarmed, with triumphant Germany and Italy at our throats, with the whole of Europe in Hitler's power, and Japan glowering on the other side of the globe."
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