The Age of Churchill

Heritage and Adventure 1874 - 1911

by Peter De Mendelssohn

Thames and Hudson, 1961, [Second Impression (August)], sepia photographic plates, sepia photographic frontispiece, colour tipped (blue) top fore edge, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, small tear at centre front endpaper hinge, previous owners’ inscription inside front cover, dustjacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing, bumping, chipping, creasing and small tears, a little peeling on jacket (see photographs)

“The Age of Churchill might also be called ‘The Churchillian Century’ since it covers the last hundred years of British history, from about 1850 to the present day.  This is the period spanned jointly by Sir Winston Churchill and his father Lord Randolph and the trilogy endeavours to see their lives and careers as a consecutive whole.
It follows the method devised by Churchill himself in his ‘Marlborough’, i.e. it gives a history of political ideas and related social, economic and other concepts as they developed in Britain and shaped its face in the last 100 years.  Through this broad and evenly spread riband runs the ‘scarlet thread’ of Churchill’s life, a life which has been involved in practically every significant aspect of the evolution of British political thought in this century.”