The World Crisis, Sandhurst Edition

Edité par Thornton Butterworth Limited, London, 1933

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This is the scarce and desirable "Sandhurst Edition" of The World Crisis – Winston Churchill’s history of the First World War. Churchill played a critical, controversial, and varied role in "The war to end all wars" a quarter of a century before he led Britain during the Second World War. His epic history of the conflict was originally published in six volumes between 1923 and 1931, followed in that year by a first abridged and revised edition which added new material. This 1933 "Sandhurst Edition" was a special – indeed unique – new abridgment, the completely reset text featuring chapters selected by Churchill from his 1931 abridged and revised edition. Only 1,354 copies were printed for the Royal Military College as a cadet textbook. We recently acquired a trove of a dozen copies laboriously sourced over long years by a college professor – more copies than we have encountered in the entire time we have been offering works by and about Churchill. This edition was a textbook, so nearly all copies have seen considerable wear and bear the consequences of heavy use, and the red cloth bindings proved susceptible to sunning. This example is in good condition, sound but worn, consonant with the used, venerable textbook it is. The binding is square and tight, though the spine is stained and frayed at the ends. There is some scuffing and minor blemishes to the covers, and the inner fore edge of the front cover is worn through to the cardboard around much of the front pastedown. The contents are reasonably clean. We find only an erased penciled name on the front free endpaper, with no underling or annotations. Light spotting appears confined to the first and final leaves and page edges. The half-title and the verso of the final Index page show transfer browning from the pastedown glue.Founded in the 18th Century, Sandhurst was, as Field-Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount of Alamein, called it, "the cradle of the British Army". Today’s Sandhurst is the descendant of two famous cadet establishments - the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst – which in 1947 merged. Winston S. Churchill entered The Royal Military College, Sandhurst, as a cavalry cadet in 1893 and passed out of Sandhurst in December 1894, to be commissioned a second lieutenant in the Fourth Queen’s Own Hussars. Sandhurst proved formative for Churchill. His career as an officer and war correspondent both proved his valor and made him famous, leading to his first election to Parliament in 1900. The Churchill who prepared this text for the cadets at his military alma mater had seen more of war from more perspectives than most of Britain’s great generals. Churchill’s firsthand knowledge of war spanned the frontiers of colonial India to "the last great British cavalry charge" on the banks of the Nile, and the corridors of Whitehall to the trenches of Flanders. His service in the British Cabinet – as First Lord of the Admiralty, Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War, and Secretary of State for Air - had seen him preside over all aspects of Britain’s fighting services.Just as Churchill was in a special position to prepare this text for Sandhurst, he was also in a special position to write the history of the First World War, which nearly cost him both his political and corporeal lives. First Lord of the Admiralty from 1911 until 1915, after the Dardanelles disaster, Churchill was scapegoated and forced to resign. He spent political exile as a lieutenant colonel of a battalion in the trenches. Before war's end, Churchill was exonerated and rejoined the Government, foreshadowing the political isolation and restoration he experienced leading up to the Second World War. Fittingly, it was during Churchill’s 1930s "wilderness years" that he shared his history of "The war to end all wars" with cadets at the institution through which he had passed four decades earlier.Reference: Cohen A69.8, Woods/ICS A31(c), Langworth p.117.…

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Titre
The World Crisis, Sandhurst Edition
Auteur
Winston S. Churchill
Éditeur
Thornton Butterworth Limited, London
Année de publication
1933
Reliure
Hardcover
Édition
Sandhurst abridged edition.

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