Great Contemporaries, a splendid early Second World War presentation copy inscribed and dated by Churchill in December 1940 as a Christmas gift to his private secretary, Sir John "Jock" Colville
London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1940. First Revised and Expanded Edition, second printing. Hardcover. This remarkable presentation copy, published the month Winston Churchill became Britain’s wartime Prime Minister, is Churchill’s celebrated collection of insightful essays about leading personalities of the day, inscribed as a Christmas gift to Churchill’s private secretary, Sir..... More