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Author Martin Gilbert Title Winston S. Churchill: Challenge Of War V. 3 Description Paperback. Minerva. . Good. Blurb   Tags Biography & Autobiography, Great Britain History, World War II

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  Winston S. Churchill Step by Step   London 1949, reprint, hard cover, 350 pages in excellent antiquarian condition   Deutsches Reich Wehrmacht Afrikakorps Nazi Germany World War II Hitler Stalin Churchill Roosevelt Ostfront Dresden genocide Fallschirmjäger Paratroopers U-Boot U-Boat atrocities expulsion Luftwaffe Waffen-SS Rommel Afrikakorps

BATTLE – The Life Story of Winston S Churchill by Hugh Martin Hard cover NO d/wrapper – 188x128mm – Victor Gollancz st Edition 8th Impression. 152 pages no index – no illustrations. Fair cond; boards rubbed; u/l/spine worn; internally clean.

The Aftermath - A Sequel to the World in Crisis - Winston S. Churchill Item Description: MacMilllan, London, 1941. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd. of London in 1941. Hardcover. 2nd edition. Book condition: Good. No Jacket. First Macmillan edition - this work was first published by Thornton Butterworth in 1929, and when the firm ceased trading in 1940 Macmillan acquired the rights & republished it, when Churchill was now wartime Prime Minister & his views of the aftermath of the First World War had become highly relevant. Hardback, with the same blue cloth binding to match other Churchill works. Dims: 235mm x 160mm x 48mm. 474 pages. Illustrated with maps. No ownership marks or inscription. Inside the books pages are slightly discoloured due to age. The blue cover has been knocked about a bit. The spine has been knocked at the top and bottom. Shelf worn. Gilt lettering on spine.   I send by Ordinary mail and supply a tracking number.   Because of postage costs it is sometimes better to to order more than one book, as I charge by weight and combine postage it is more cost effective. I combine postage. I also combine postage with Jessies. For Condition see images below. Please quote Username or order number when making a payment              

THE SECOND WORLD WAR VOL 2  Their Finest Hour by Winston S Churchill Hard cover with d/w – 220x150mm - Cassell & Co Ltd 1949 1st Revised Edition 684 pages with index – maps/tables – foldout maps V/Good cond: u/l/spine and u/corners mildly bumped; no inscriptions; leading and lower edges spotted; rubbing on f/board. D/W: Good: u/l/spine paper loss; u/l/edges frizzled; covered in a light plastic.

The Second World War 1 - The Gathering Storm - Winston S. Churchill Hardcover with no Dust Jacket I send by Ord inary mail and supply a tracking number.   Because of postage costs it is sometimes better to to order more than one book, as I charge by weight and combine postage it is more cost effective. I combine postage. I also combine postage with Jessies. For Condition see images below. Please quote Username or order number when making a payment  

Road To Victory, Winston S. Churchill 1941-1945 by Martin Gilbert A first edition hardcover published by Heinemann in 1986 Blue cover boards with gold writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions, dustjacket is complete, like new. Postage cost within South Africa will be R40.00 Overseas buyers can contact us for a postal quote

The Second World War - Volumes 1-6 - Winston S. Churchill Hardcover With no Dust Jacket   I send by Ordinary mail and supply a tracking number.   Because of postage costs it is sometimes better to to order more than one book, as I charge by weight and combine postage it is more cost effective. I combine postage. I also combine postage with Jessies.          

The Aftermath - A Sequel to the World in Crisis - Winston S. Churchill Item Description: MacMilllan, London, 1941. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd. of London in 1941. Hardcover. 2nd edition. Book condition: Good. No Jacket. First Macmillan edition - this work was first published by Thornton Butterworth in 1929, and when the firm ceased trading in 1940 Macmillan acquired the rights & republished it, when Churchill was now wartime Prime Minister & his views of the aftermath of the First World War had become highly relevant. Hardback, with the same blue cloth binding to match other Churchill works. Dims: 235mm x 160mm x 48mm. 474 pages. Illustrated with maps. No ownership marks or inscription. Inside the books pages are slightly discoloured due to age. The blue cover has been knocked about a bit. The spine has been knocked at the top and bottom. Shelf worn. Gilt lettering on spine.   I send by Ordinary mail and supply a tracking number.   Because of postage costs it is sometimes better to to order more than one book, as I charge by weight and combine postage it is more cost effective. I combine postage. I also combine postage with Jessies. For Condition see images below.  

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Hardback. Leo Cooper. 1972. ISBN: 850521289. 350 pp with bw illustrations and sketch maps.. Good condition in hardcover with slightly scuffed dw; unrelated inscr on epsThe original despatches of Winston Churchill's first three wars, on the NW Frontier, the Sudan and in South Africa.

HARDCOVER - GOOD CONDITION - PUBLISHED CASSELL ST EDITION - COVERED IN CLEAR PORTECTIVE REMOVABLE WRAPPER -. Previous owners name in book.  

  SOFT COVER - GOOD CONDITION - BLACK AND WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS AND MAPS - 270 PAGES.  

Beige cloth hardcovers, no dust jacket, in 6 Volumes. Binding is solid and internally clean and bright. Published 1951, '52, '53,'54,  and '56. Foxing on some end pages. A good set. Postage in RSA = R66.00

One of the greatest talents that Winston Churchill was blessed with was his extraordinary command of the English language. He would go on to write a prodigious 65 books in his lifetime. He was rewarded for this in 1953 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Yet in Britain his abilities as a writer were already widely recognized by the end of the 19th century. Yet oddly enough he had not excelled academically at school and it was only on his third attempt that he passed the entrance examination to the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. Before entering politics he went on to combine his military career with journalism and shortly after the outbreak of the South African War in 1899, he was contracted as a war correspondent for the Morning Post. He made his way to the Natal front where he was destined to become one of the highest-paid newspaper reporters in the world. Much has been made of Churchill’s heroism. The exceptional courage he displayed when defending the derailed armoured train at Chieveley in Natal made his reputation. Yet strictly speaking as a journalist he was a non-combatant, but on his capture, the Boers treated him as a combatant because of his actions at the armoured train. This was not an isolated incident of bravery for on other occasions, in Cuba, India and in Africa, his sometimes almost reckless courage had drawn widespread comment. On three different occasions during the Malakand campaign in India, he rode his pony along the skirmish line while everyone else was ducking for cover. He admitted that his actions were foolish, but playing for high stakes was a calculated risk. ‘Given an audience there is no act too daring or too noble’, he wrote to his mother, and concluded his letter by saying: ‘... without the gallery things are different.’ Scaling the wall surrounding the prison yard in Pretoria and making his way through enemy territory to Portuguese East Africa was not considered a particularly great feat by the British military. Yet his escape he was largely unknown to the British people until then was hailed by many as one of the greatest military escapes ever. His instant fame, to a large degree, came about because the war was going badly for the British Army at the time. A depressed British people needed a hero to bolster their sagging enthusiasm for the war, so Winston Churchill was their man. He had the need to stay in the limelight to fuel his political ambitions and the best way to achieve that was by returning to the front as a journalist and part-time soldier after his escape where he continued to captivate the readers of the Morning Post with his dispatches, writing convincingly about his own and other’s front-line experiences. His stories of how he miraculously escaped the bullets that whistled around him in Natal and the Orange Free State and how he rode a bicycle through enemy-held Johannesburg, ending with his triumphant returned to Pretoria where he helped to liberate his former fellow POW's from captivity, earned his newspaper a fortune. The fact that the adventures he described sometimes did not happen exactly the way he related them didn't seem to bother anyone. William Manchester wrote: ‘Virtually every event he (Churchill) described in South Africa, as in Cuba, on the North-West Frontier, and at Omdurman, was witnessed by others with whom recollections were consistent. The difference, of course, lay in the interpretation.’ I set out to discover the real Churchill in those early years of his life. During this process I discovered many facets to this complex and controversial man. At times I felt like a certain painter described by Cervantes. This sage artist was asked, as he was starting on a new canvas, what his picture was to be. ‘That’, he replied, ‘is as it may turn out.’ So this, my account of how the young and extraordinary Winston Churchill became a hero during the South African War, is how it turned out. Paperback, 268 pages. Published August 2008  

One of the greatest talents that Winston Churchill was blessed with was his extraordinary command of the English language. He would go on to write a prodigious 65 books in his lifetime. He was rewarded for this in 1953 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Yet in Britain his abilities as a writer were already widely recognized by the end of the 19th century. Yet oddly enough he had not excelled academically at school and it was only on his third attempt that he passed the entrance examination to the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. Before entering politics he went on to combine his military career with journalism and shortly after the outbreak of the South African War in 1899, he was contracted as a war correspondent for the Morning Post. He made his way to the Natal front where he was destined to become one of the highest-paid newspaper reporters in the world. Much has been made of Churchills heroism. The exceptional courage he displayed when defending the derailed armoured train at Chieveley in Natal made his reputation. Yet strictly speaking as a journalist he was a non-combatant, but on his capture, the Boers treated him as a combatant because of his actions at the armoured train. This was not an isolated incident of bravery for on other occasions, in Cuba, India and in Africa, his sometimes almost reckless courage had drawn widespread comment. On three different occasions during the Malakand campaign in India, he rode his pony along the skirmish line while everyone else was ducking for cover. He admitted that his actions were foolish, but playing for high stakes was a calculated risk. Given an audience there is no act too daring or too noble, he wrote to his mother, and concluded his letter by saying:... without the gallery things are different. Scaling the wall surrounding the prison yard in Pretoria and making his way through enemy territory to Portuguese East Africa was not considered a particularly great feat by the British military. Yet his escape he was largely unknown to the British people until then was hailed by many as one of the greatest military escapes ever. His instant fame, to a large degree, came about because the war was going badly for the British Army at the time. A depressed British people needed a hero to bolster their sagging enthusiasm for the war, so Winston Churchill was their man. He had the need to stay in the limelight to fuel his political ambitions and the best way to achieve that was by returning to the front as a journalist and part-time soldier after his escape where he continued to captivate the readers of the Morning Post with his dispatches, writing convincingly about his own and others front-line experiences. His stories of how he miraculously escaped the bullets that whistled around him in Natal and the Orange Free State and how he rode a bicycle through enemy-held Johannesburg, ending with his triumphant returned to Pretoria where he helped to liberate his former fellow POW's from captivity, earned his newspaper a fortune. The fact that the adventures he described sometimes did not happen exactly the way he related them didn't seem to bother anyone. William Manchester wrote: Virtually every event he (Churchill) described in South Africa, as in Cuba, on the North-West Frontier, and at Omdurman, was witnessed by others with whom recollections were consistent. The difference, of course, lay in the interpretation. I set out to discover the real Churchill in those early years of his life. During this process I discovered many facets to this complex and controversial man. At times I felt like a certain painter described by Cervantes. This sage artist was asked, as he was starting on a new canvas, what his picture was to be. That, he replied, is as it may turn out. So this, my account of how the young and extraordinary Winston Churchill became a hero during the South African War, is how it turned out. Paperback, 268 pages. Published August 2008  

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1999. Soft cover; 233 pages. Very good condition. Under 1kg.   In this stirring biography of a brash, resourceful Churchill in his early twenties, Celia Sandys retraces her illustrious grandfather's path through South Africa as she reconstructs his adventures during nine months of the Anglo-Boer War at the end of the last century. She visits the campsites where the bold war correspondent and ready soldier bivouacked, the battlefields where he skirmished and fought, the site of his incarceration in Pretoria as the Boers' prisoner of war; she follows the route of his daring escape to the Mozambique border. Using both British and South African sources, which alternately reveal the young combatant as a courageous ally or formidable foe, Sandys narrates the heart-stopping exploits of a Churchill that history has largely forgotten. Yet his heroics in Africa thrust him to fame on the international stage, and within three months of his return to England, at the age of twenty-five, Churchill became a member of Parliament. Churchill: Wanted Dead or Alive offers both a multifaceted portrait of the youthful adventurer who would become England's legendary prime minister and an exciting tale of the turbulent events one hundred years ago that defined South Africa for modern times.