"Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. "
— Bertolt Brecht
London: Cassell and Company, 1946. [Second World War] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 239 [1]. With two double-sided black and white photographic plates, and a photographic frontispiece. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue and purple typographic dust-jacket, priced at 12/6. No inscriptions. Contents clean, edges spotted, jacket lightly rubbed. Shows well. The penultimate volume of Churchill's wartime speeches. 'Victory', as the title suggests, covers the concluding phases of the war in Europe, the deaths of Lloyd George and President Roosevelt, and the devastating final act of atomic warfare in Japan, thus ending the conflict in September 1945. Item #76412
Price: £75.00
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