A just about Fine set with a knock to the lower corner of volume three and the odd spot of foxing throughout. Original blue cloth, gilt-panelled spines with red sheep labels lettered in gilt, front covers lettered and ruled in gilt, top edges blue, blue and white endbands.

This is the author's last great work, only available some twenty years after he wrote the first draft, which then lay dormant whilst he attended to National and Parliamentary matters. S. first edition of this particular work – quite striking as well as strikingly different in appearance from its British first edition counterpart – seems entirely appropriate. Churchill, who himself made history as Prime Minister of Great Britain twice, twice (1940–45 and 1951–55.

Printing major works by someone with Churchill s global stature in the 1950s would have been not only a commercial coup, but also a matter of reputational prestige which may help explain why the printer undertook this special binding. Volume III necessarily broadens in scope, covering 1668 to 1815, including the American Revolution and the defeat of Napoleon.

This book ends with the last three chapters; one of which is entitled “Washington, Adams, and Jefferson”, “The War of 1812”; and, the last chapter of book 9, chapter 24 entitled “Elba and Waterloo. This is a pre-publication publisher’s review copy of the third volume of Churchill’s sweeping history and last great work. The establishment of British Columbia is the Province connected by railway that assists this international agreement. This enabled him to utilize the literary team he had assembled for the biography, to which he added dozens of outlines he had solicited from scholars. This volume begins with King William III and Queen Mary II; a tumultuous left over location of the world following the removal of King James II.H. Plumb wrote: "This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues — its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what Englishmen in the hey-day of their empire thought and felt about their country's past.