The World Crisis 1911-1918
de Winston S. Churchill
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London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1943. Macmillan issue, third and final printing. Hardcover. This collectible wartime reprint is the third and final Macmillan issue of the abridged and revised single-volume edition of Winston Churchills acclaimed history of the First World War. A quarter of a century before the Second World War endowed him with lasting fame, Winston Churchill played a uniquely critical, controversial, and varied role in the War to end all wars. Then, being Churchill, he wrote about it.
The World Crisis was originally published in six volumes between 1923 and 1931. After completion of the sixth and final volume, a first abridged and revised edition followed, also in 1931. This important edition covering the war years 1911-1918 is not just an abridgement. It incorporates revisions by Churchill with new material, including a whole new chapter on the Battle of the Marne, as well as a new introduction.
This first abridged and revised edition The World Crisis 1911-1918 was published by Thornton Butterworth just as Churchill was beginning his wilderness years decade. Churchill spent nearly the entirety of the 1930s out of power and out of favor, frequently at odds with both his Government and prevailing public sentiment. But in 1940 Churchill became wartime Prime Minister. And also in 1940, Thornton Butterworth went under and a different publisher, Macmillan, acquired the rights to several of Churchills books.
Macmillan produced three printings of The World Crisis 1911-1918 in 1941, 1942, and 1943. This is the third and final printing of 1943. Technically this was an issue and not an edition since it was printed from first edition plates. Of note is the variant binding, a distinctly purple cloth rather than the navy blue noted in Cohen (A69.14.a-c) and in other copies we have encountered.
This third and final printing of the Macmillan issue of 1943 is very good plus in a very good dust jacket. The purple cloth binding is square, tight, and unfaded with bright spine gilt. We note minor shelf wear to extremities and a few trivial blemishes to the coarse cloth. The contents are respectably bright and show no spotting. The sole previous owner name is inked on the upper front free endpaper recto. The page edges show minor soiling and age-toning. The dust jacket is not only unclipped, retaining the original lower front flap price, but also complete, with no reportable loss. Moreover, the red spine title print remains clearly legible. The jacket does show soiling and light wear to extremities, including a short closed tear at the upper front joint. The dust jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.
In October 1911, aged 36, Winston Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. He entered the post with the brief to change war strategy and ensure the readiness of the worlds most powerful navy. He did both. Even Secretary of State for War Lord Kitchener, with whom Churchill had been variously at odds for nearly two decades, told Churchill on his final day as First Lord Well, there is one thing at any rate they cannot take from you. The Fleet was ready." (The World Crisis: 1915, p.391) Nonetheless, when Churchill advocated successfully for a naval campaign in the Dardanelles that ultimately proved disastrous, a convergence of factors sealed his political fate. Churchill was scapegoated and forced to resign, leaving the Admiralty in May 1915.
By November, Churchill resigned even his nominal Cabinet posts to spend the rest of his political exile as a lieutenant colonel leading a battalion in the trenches at the Front. Before war's end, Churchill was exonerated by the Dardanelles Commission and rejoined the Government, foreshadowing the political isolation and restoration he would experience two decades later leading up to the Second World War. Despite Churchill's political recovery, the stigma of the Dardanelles lingered. Hence Churchill had more than just literary and financial compulsion to write his history.
Reference: Cohen A69.14.c, Woods/ICS A31(bd.3), Langworth p.116.
The World Crisis was originally published in six volumes between 1923 and 1931. After completion of the sixth and final volume, a first abridged and revised edition followed, also in 1931. This important edition covering the war years 1911-1918 is not just an abridgement. It incorporates revisions by Churchill with new material, including a whole new chapter on the Battle of the Marne, as well as a new introduction.
This first abridged and revised edition The World Crisis 1911-1918 was published by Thornton Butterworth just as Churchill was beginning his wilderness years decade. Churchill spent nearly the entirety of the 1930s out of power and out of favor, frequently at odds with both his Government and prevailing public sentiment. But in 1940 Churchill became wartime Prime Minister. And also in 1940, Thornton Butterworth went under and a different publisher, Macmillan, acquired the rights to several of Churchills books.
Macmillan produced three printings of The World Crisis 1911-1918 in 1941, 1942, and 1943. This is the third and final printing of 1943. Technically this was an issue and not an edition since it was printed from first edition plates. Of note is the variant binding, a distinctly purple cloth rather than the navy blue noted in Cohen (A69.14.a-c) and in other copies we have encountered.
This third and final printing of the Macmillan issue of 1943 is very good plus in a very good dust jacket. The purple cloth binding is square, tight, and unfaded with bright spine gilt. We note minor shelf wear to extremities and a few trivial blemishes to the coarse cloth. The contents are respectably bright and show no spotting. The sole previous owner name is inked on the upper front free endpaper recto. The page edges show minor soiling and age-toning. The dust jacket is not only unclipped, retaining the original lower front flap price, but also complete, with no reportable loss. Moreover, the red spine title print remains clearly legible. The jacket does show soiling and light wear to extremities, including a short closed tear at the upper front joint. The dust jacket is protected beneath a clear, removable, archival cover.
In October 1911, aged 36, Winston Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. He entered the post with the brief to change war strategy and ensure the readiness of the worlds most powerful navy. He did both. Even Secretary of State for War Lord Kitchener, with whom Churchill had been variously at odds for nearly two decades, told Churchill on his final day as First Lord Well, there is one thing at any rate they cannot take from you. The Fleet was ready." (The World Crisis: 1915, p.391) Nonetheless, when Churchill advocated successfully for a naval campaign in the Dardanelles that ultimately proved disastrous, a convergence of factors sealed his political fate. Churchill was scapegoated and forced to resign, leaving the Admiralty in May 1915.
By November, Churchill resigned even his nominal Cabinet posts to spend the rest of his political exile as a lieutenant colonel leading a battalion in the trenches at the Front. Before war's end, Churchill was exonerated by the Dardanelles Commission and rejoined the Government, foreshadowing the political isolation and restoration he would experience two decades later leading up to the Second World War. Despite Churchill's political recovery, the stigma of the Dardanelles lingered. Hence Churchill had more than just literary and financial compulsion to write his history.
Reference: Cohen A69.14.c, Woods/ICS A31(bd.3), Langworth p.116.
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- The World Crisis 1911-1918
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- Winston S. Churchill
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- Macmillan issue, third and final printing
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- Macmillan & Co. Ltd.
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- London
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- 1943
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