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Prelude to Victory: Introduction by Winston Churchill

Prelude to Victory: Author's Inscription to Hankey

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With an Introduction by The Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill

Author: Brigadier-General E. L. Spears
London: Jonathan Cape, 1939
First Edition
Octavo
Bound in publisher’s red cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge-stained red
Numerous photographs and fold-out maps, all in excellent condition.

Churchill, in his introduction, describes it as “one of the best books which have been written about the Great War”.

Presentation copy from the author to Maurice Hankey.

“To Maurice Hankey
from
Louis Spears
Nov. 3rd 1939”

Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey, 1st Baron Hankey, (born April 1, 1877, Biarritz, France—died Jan. 26, 1963, Redhill, Surrey, Eng.), soldier and politician, first holder of the office of secretary to the British Cabinet.

He was also British secretary at several international conferences, notably at Versailles (1919), Washington (1921), Genoa (1922), London (1924), The Hague (1929–30) and Lausanne (1932).

A very good copy in very good dust jacket

Woods B33
Cohen B67

Item #576

Price: $950

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