Author: CHURCHILL. WINSTON. S.
Title: A SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER... IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, AUGUST 20th 1940.
Description: Baynard Press. London. 1940. FIRST EDITION. Printed stapled wraps. 16pp. (9.5 x 6 inches). Some minor creasing otherwise this is a very near fine, bright, crisp and clean copy throughout. Overall a much better copy than is usually found of this fragile pamphlet. ---- Housed in a felt lined clamshell box with black morocco spine, raised bands, decorated with Rampant Lion device in compartments, ruled and lettered in gilt. Black cloth on boards. ----- Printing and the mind of man. No.424. The Lion`s Voice. "If the Gettysburg Address is one of the most moving statements of democracy confronted by tragedy, Churchill's historic exhortations are its equal in their ringing assertion of democracy confronting the seemingly irresistible forces of tyranny". First edition of Churchill`s famous rousing speech, commenting on the first months of the war and giving thanks to British Airmen. "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few".

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