![]() ![]() The Dream was issued leatherbound in book form by the International Churchill Society in 1987. ![]() Two contemporary publications by the International Churchill Society preserved between covers for the first time a pair of fascinating Churchill obscurities. An excellent one-volume abridgment was published in 1959 largely the work of Churchill’s research assistant, Denis Kelly, though Churchill did contribute an interesting epilogue covering the years 1945-1957. The English edition is therefore considered more definitive, though today the American edition may be rarer. The set was simultaneously published by the Book-of-the-Month-Club in America, printed on the same presses as the first editions, and thus can easily be confused with them. The ensuing English editions, issued within months of the American, contained numerous corrections and even a few additional maps. ![]() under the following titles: THE GATHERING STORM (Volume I/1948), THEIR FINEST HOUR (Volume II/1949), THE GRAND ALLIANCE (Volume III/1950), THE HINGE OF FATE (Volume IV/1950), CLOSING THE RING (Volume V/1951) and TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY (Volume VI/1953). ![]() Published in six volumes that appeared over six years, the books each came out first in the U.S. The Second World War, also known as Winston Churchill’s War Memoirs, won Churchill the Nobel Prize for literature in 1953. ![]()
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