BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS
The First Volume of Winston Churchill's War Speeches
1941
Book-of-the-Month-Club Edition
G.P. Putnam’s Sons [New York]
Biblio: Cohen A 142.4) (Woods A66b)
16mo (462 pages, photo frontis, 52 speeches)
Hardcover without Dust Jacket [Red cloth]
Item Number: 3173
$85.00
Collector's Guide
Into Battle is the first volume of Winston Churchill’s collected World War II speeches (covering May 1938-November 9, 1940). Here are many of Churchill’s most notable oratorical flourishes of the war, including “blood, toil, tears and sweat,” “their finest hour,” and “never was so much owed by so many to so few.” Churchill’s speeches were collected and published yearly throughout the war beginning with this one in 1941. Into Battle was published in the U.S. and Canada under the title: Blood, Sweat and Tears. The U.S. (and Book-of-the-Month-Club) editions added four speeches that do not appear in the English edition, those of December 19 and 23, 1940 and January 9 and February 9, 1941.
Description
A very good copy of the original Book-of-the-Month-Club Edition, without dust jacket. The contents here are fine, with a vintage bookplate on the front pastedown. Laid-in is a nominally damp-stained Book-of-the-Month-Club News leaflet for this title.