365, [1] pp. With two maps, one of them folding. 21.5x13.5 cm, specially bound for the Duke of Windsor by Lucie Weill, in half green morocco & marbled boards, spine gilt with three red morocco lettering pieces, crowned cipher of the Duke of Windsor on the lower label. First Edition. Rare presentation copy inscribed by Winston S. Churchill to the former King Edward the VIII, on blank leaf preceding half-title. The inscription reads "To His Royal Highness, The Duke of Windsor, from Winston S. Churchill, June 1939," the month of publication. Churchill was still a voice in the wilderness at this time, futilely warning against the dangers of appeasing Adolf Hitler. Little more than two months later his warnings were to prove tragically well-founded, as Herr Hitler attacked Poland, starting the Second World War, with Churchill being called once again so serve in the British government. Churchill's relationship with Edward was long and somewhat curious. The two first met when the young prince was 17 years old, Churchill twenty years his senior. Edward seems to have at first idolized, then loathed, the consummate statesman, but their relationship persevered, and was such that when, as King Edward VIII, he chose to resign in order to marry the commoner Wallis Simpson, Churchill assisted in writing his abdication speech.
365, [1] pp. With two maps, one of them folding. 21.5x13.5 cm, specially bound for the Duke of Windsor by Lucie Weill, in half green morocco & marbled boards, spine gilt with three red morocco lettering pieces, crowned cipher of the Duke of Windsor on the lower label. First Edition. Rare presentation copy inscribed by Winston S. Churchill to the former King Edward the VIII, on blank leaf preceding half-title. The inscription reads "To His Royal Highness, The Duke of Windsor, from Winston S. Churchill, June 1939," the month of publication. Churchill was still a voice in the wilderness at this time, futilely warning against the dangers of appeasing Adolf Hitler. Little more than two months later his warnings were to prove tragically well-founded, as Herr Hitler attacked Poland, starting the Second World War, with Churchill being called once again so serve in the British government. Churchill's relationship with Edward was long and somewhat curious. The two first met when the young prince was 17 years old, Churchill twenty years his senior. Edward seems to have at first idolized, then loathed, the consummate statesman, but their relationship persevered, and was such that when, as King Edward VIII, he chose to resign in order to marry the commoner Wallis Simpson, Churchill assisted in writing his abdication speech.
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