My Early Life; Thoughts and Adventures; Great Contemporaries; Step by Step (Four-Volume Set)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Author: Winston S. Churchill
Binding: Hardback
Published: Odhams Press Limited, London, 1948
Condition:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Damaged
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Faded red cloths with bumping on corners and spines. Rubbed edges. Light foxing on prelims and book blocks. Chipped and worn DJs. V1: Damaged DJ with large piece missing.
This four-volume set—My Early Life, Thoughts and Adventures, Great Contemporaries, and Step by Step—published by Odhams Press in 1948, presents a commanding portrait of Winston S. Churchill as soldier, statesman, and writer. My Early Life chronicles Churchill’s formative years, military service, and entry into politics, offering vivid accounts of imperial campaigns and personal ambition. Thoughts and Adventures compiles essays and reflections that illustrate his intellectual range, from war strategy to technological change. Great Contemporaries profiles influential figures of the 20th century, including Roosevelt, Hitler, and Lawrence of Arabia, with sharp character analysis and political insight. Step by Step documents Churchill’s warnings against appeasement and his prescient commentary on European instability from 1936 to 1939. Together, these volumes argue for Churchill’s enduring relevance as a thinker and leader, capturing the urgency, wit, and conviction that defined his public life
Author: Winston S. Churchill
Binding: Hardback
Published: Odhams Press Limited, London, 1948
Condition:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Damaged
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Faded red cloths with bumping on corners and spines. Rubbed edges. Light foxing on prelims and book blocks. Chipped and worn DJs. V1: Damaged DJ with large piece missing.
This four-volume set—My Early Life, Thoughts and Adventures, Great Contemporaries, and Step by Step—published by Odhams Press in 1948, presents a commanding portrait of Winston S. Churchill as soldier, statesman, and writer. My Early Life chronicles Churchill’s formative years, military service, and entry into politics, offering vivid accounts of imperial campaigns and personal ambition. Thoughts and Adventures compiles essays and reflections that illustrate his intellectual range, from war strategy to technological change. Great Contemporaries profiles influential figures of the 20th century, including Roosevelt, Hitler, and Lawrence of Arabia, with sharp character analysis and political insight. Step by Step documents Churchill’s warnings against appeasement and his prescient commentary on European instability from 1936 to 1939. Together, these volumes argue for Churchill’s enduring relevance as a thinker and leader, capturing the urgency, wit, and conviction that defined his public life