Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill’s Speeches.

CHURCHILL, Winston S.

$375.00

Item Number: 148113

London: Pimlico, 2003.

First edition, third printing of this collection of Sir Winston Churchill’s speeches, personally selected by his grandson Winston S. Churchill, the editor. Octavo, original cloth with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with black and white photographs. Boldly signed by Winston S. Churchill on the epigraph page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket.

Following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain on May 10th 1940, Winston S. Churchill became Prime Minister of England and took the lead in warning about Nazi Germany and in campaigning for rearmament. His speeches and radio broadcasts helped inspire British resistance, especially during the difficult days of 1940–41 when the British Commonwealth and Empire stood almost alone in its active opposition to Adolf Hitler. A non-academic historian, artist, and prolific writer, Churchill won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his overall, lifetime body of work.