6 volumes, 8vo (210 x 140 mm). Numerous maps, charts, and facsimiles. Original red cloth (rubbing, partial split at hinge of vol. VI, sunning to spines). Provenance: Donald E. Petersen (1926-2024), American businessman and former CEO of the Ford Motor Company (ownership blind stamp). 

FIRST AMERICAN EDITIONS preceding the first edition published in England by six months. Publication of Churchill’s monumental history of the Second World War was delayed in Britain due to last-minute changes Churchill wished to make to the British edition, as he considered that to be the definitive history. Woods A123(a).