Winston Churchill’s Post-War Speeches: The Sinews of Peace, Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 & 1948, In The Balance: Speeches 1949 & 1950, Stemming the Tide: Speeches 1951 & 1952, The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953-1959.
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Edited by Randolph S. Churchill.
Winston Churchill’s Post-War Speeches: The Sinews of Peace, Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 & 1948, In The Balance: Speeches 1949 & 1950, Stemming the Tide: Speeches 1951 & 1952, The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953-1959.
First editions of each volume in Winston S. Churchill's Post-War Speeches series; each in the rare original dust jacket
London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1948-1961.
$3,500.00
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Item Number: 151245
Rare complete first edition set of Churchill’s Post-War Speeches, each of which had a single print run and including The Unwritten Alliance, the last of Churchill’s books published during his lifetime. Octavo, five volumes, original publisher’s cloth. Each volume is near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An unusually sharp set. Churchill’s post-war speeches are rarer than his wartime collections as each volume had but a single print run.
Churchill's Post-War Speeches cover the period from Demobilization in 1945 when he was Leader of the Opposition through his second term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and into his retirement. The collection includes the final book published during Churchill's lifetime, the Unwritten Alliance, published in 1961. Notable among these speeches are the famous 'Iron Curtain' address that defined the Cold War divide, his early calls for European unity, and his sweeping 1949 reflection on the promises and realities of the 20th century.
