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"I do not underrate the difficult and intricate complications of the task which lies before us; I know too much about it to cherish vain illusions; but the morrow of such a victory as we have gained is a splendid moment both in our small lives and in our great history. It is a time not only of rejoicing but even more of resolve.When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst." -- August 16, 1945: "The Supreme Triumph"

Winston Churchill: War Speeches Finely bound first editions CHURCHILL, Winston S. War Speeches: Into Battle (1941); The Unrelenting Struggle (1942); The End of the Beginning (1943); Onwards to Victory (1944); The Dawn of Liberation (1945); Victory (1946); Secret Session Speeches (1946). London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., (1941-46). Modern full red morocco, gilt-decorated spines with lion devices, gilt-ruled boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt. Seven volumes. $4500. First editions of Churchill's War Speeches, very handsomely bound. The most important speeches from the greatest orator of the twentieth-century. First edition collections of the War Speeches bound in high-quality leather bindings are notoriously rare. Occasional foxing, a fine set.