"The Second World War" by Winston Churchill - Educational Book Company, 1955 first Chartwell edition - 20cmx15cm - complete in 6 volumes - condition: good, in original binding with some rubbing to edges, some marks on spines, complete with frontispieces, ill. and maps First Chartwell edition, the first fully illustrated edition of Churchill's masterly account of the Second World War, incorporating Churchill's final revisions to the text and enhanced by the addition of numerous plates from official photographs. This set is from the collection of Churchill's bibliographer Ronald Cohen. The Chartwell edition was produced upon the completion of the Second World War series and published in six volumes between 1948 and 1954; it is the second British edition overall. The Second World War ranks as one of the supreme historical achievements of the 20th century and is commonly cited as a major factor in Churchill being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953. As Max Beloff observed, there was no statesman of the 20th century "whose retrospective accounts of the great events in which he has taken part have so dominated subsequent historical thinking". Provenance