"The Second World War. Triumph and Tragedy", by Winston Churchill, published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1953, First BOMSC Edition with "1953" on the title page and copyright, small embossed dot on the backboard; illustrated with maps and diagrams.

Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953, in no small part due to this awe-inspiring work.

Concluding Sir Winston Churchill's narrative of the Second World War, TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY spans the period from the D-Day landings of June 1944 to the surrender of all Allied enemies 14 months later. In this period, Nazi Germany was crushed, partitioned and occupied; Soviet Russia established herself in the heart of Western Europe and in Japan, the first atomic bombs were cast. What lends Triumph and Tragedy its tension is Churchill's inclusion of primary source material. We hear Churchill's retrospective analysis of the war, but we are also presented with memos, letters, orders, speeches, and telegrams that give day-by-day accounts of the reactions as the drama unfolds.

In "Triumph and Tragedy," Churchill provides in dramatic detail the endgame of the war and the uneasy meetings between himself, Stalin, and Truman to discuss plans for rebuilding Europe in the aftermath of devastation, beginning with invasion of Normandy, the heroic landing of the Allied armies and the most remarkable amphibious operation in military history. Churchill watches as the uneasy coalition that had knit themselves together begins to fray at Potsdam, foreshadowing the birth of the Cold War.

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom throughout the Second World War. Throughout his long and distinguished political career his writing was prolific. He was the author of 42 books and won the NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE in 1953 for his 'mastery of historical and biographical description'. Regarded by many as the greatest British Prime Minister in history.

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Original dust jacket [some wear and edge creases]; hard boards; original publisher’s cloth with black box and gold lettering on the front board and spine; 5.3/4” x 8”; 800 pages including Index; illustrated with several maps and diagrams; very good condition.