Author: CHURCHILL, WINSTON S.
Title: Marlborough. His Life and Times. Complete in 4 volumes.
Description: London : George Newnes, 1933-38.. First edition of each volume. pp.[4]; 612; pp.651; [1]; pp.[2]; 608; [2]; pp.671; [1],325 ills: plates, folding maps and battle plans, frontispieces. Indexes HARDCOVER: (Orig. 3/4 maroon-red cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Text-blocks all very clean, only the occasional evidence of age, ¶ SCARCE FIRST EDITIONS ALL IN FIRST ISSUE FORMAT. CHURCHILL S VERY IMPORTANT HISTORICAL WORK ON MARLBOROUGH. Churchill sets out to give a true depiction of his famous ancestor: " It is my hope to recall this great shade from the past, and not only to invest him with his panoply, but make him living and intimate to modern eyes. I hope to show that he was not only the foremost of English soldiers, but in the first rank among the statesmen of our history; not only that he was a Titan, for that is not disputed, but that he was a virtuous and benevolent being, eminently seviceable to to his age and country, capable of drawing harmony and design from chaos, and one who only needed an earlier and still wider authority to have made a more ordered and a more tolerant civilization for his own time and to help the future." (from the preface).

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