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Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of The Second World War with an Epilogue by the Author on the Postwar Years Written for this Volume
Memoirs of the Second World War An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of The Second World War with an Epilogue by the Author on the Postwar Years Written for this Volume Author:Winston S. Churchill This volume is an abridgement of Sir Winston Churchill's great work The Second World War, which consists of the six volumes: The Gathering Storm, Their Finest Hour, The Grand Alliance, The Hinge of Fate, Closing the Ring, and Triumph and Tragedy. — The text has been reduced to approximately one quarter of its original length, yet it graphically ... more »presents the war events and planning in the words of the magnificent leader who for his writing was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The result is not so much a condensation of history as the quintessence of the war as it was seen by its greatest protagonist.
For this edition Sir Winston has written an Epilogue which may well remain his last work published in his lifetime. In it he sets forth his view of the postwar era, during which several of his speeches were major determinants in themselves. He looks at our world from the summit of the years with understanding and not without hope for the future.« less