The Second World War - Softcover

Churchill, Winston S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0712667024 ISBN 13: 9780712667029

Publisher: Pimlico, 2002

Synopsis

Edition Pimlico, 2002. Abridged Edition from Cassell & Co's 1954 Edition in ONE volume, with a new Epilogue on the years 1945-1957. ISBN: 978-0-712-66702-9. PAPERBACK. 1051 pages, size: 15.4 x 23.4 x 6.2 cm. Just light tan to paper edges. Other than that, the new and unread book remains in very good condition throughout: Soft cover in good form; text all clean, neat and tight. Prompt dispatch from UK.

About this title

Product Description:

Churchill's history of the Second World War is, and will remain, the definitive work. Lucid, dramatic, remarkable both for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement, it is universally acknowledged as a magnificent historical reconstruction and an enduring work of literature. (2001-07-30)

Review:

"The Second World War dwarfs in scale the scanty memoirs of great figures of the past. The imagination boggles at the task of finding a just comparison... The events would have made the narrative great even if the writer had not had Churchill's gift of style. But the style matches the occasion" (Times Literary Supplement)

"That the acclamation has been even greater than might have been anticipated is the measure of his unique achievement - to have given the authority and the majesty of history to the stuff of his own times" (Daily Telegraph)

"He is not writing history so much as reliving it - with its animosities still remembered, its wounds still smarting. This is a story told while the sweat and shock of mortal combat are still upon the teller" (Evening Standard)

About this edition

• Publisher: Pimlico
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0712667024
• ISBN 13: 9780712667029
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1056