"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

London: Cassell and Company, 1945. [World War II] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xi; [1]; 327; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, in typographic dust-jacket priced at 12/6. Illustrated with three half-tone plates. Some spotting to edges, discreet name to pastedown, jacket price-clipped. A very good copy in a moderately used wrapper with a few nicks and rubs. Shows well. The fifth volume of Churchill's wartime speeches, covering the pivotal year of 1944, which saw the Allies advance on Rome following victories at Anzio and Monte Cassino, and the decisive D-Day landings at Normandy, being the catalyst for the liberation of German-occupied France. Item #58801
WOODS, Frederick, 'A Bibliography of the Works of Sir Winston Churchill', 107. Langworth 228. See also Cohen.
Price: £65.00