Today's find, all six volumes of Churchill on WW2

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These books got him the noble prize in literature in 1953. The ones I found were book of the month club hard cover editions. They were printed and sold around the time that each volume was released. All six, with dust jackets, were sitting atop a cart of books next to the big boxes of free over ripe bananas at the Salvation Army.

They were 25 cents a piece, being on the cheap old books cart. A detective novel, called "The Undercover Man" from 1931 was beneath them.

I assume someone bought the books as they came out in the late 40s and early 50s, and that someone cleaned out their "stuff" after they passed, donating the books.

Several of my kids are under the weather today, so I couldn't make it to the gunshow at the fairgrounds. But I take ten or twenty minutes every Saturday to check the books.
 
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"My Early Life" is not only good for other reasons, but showed Churchill's droll sense of humor.

The prize he won is the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is capitalized because it's named for the creator, Alfred Nobel, and is therefore a proper name.

Churchill was knighted (Order of the Garter) about the same time that he got this literary award, ca. 1953. Queen Elizabeth II had hardly taken the Throne before bestowing this highest of knighthoods.
 
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The prize he won is the Nobel Prize for Literature. It is capitalized because it's named for the creator, Alfred Nobel, and is therefore a proper ...
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Quite correct, the fellow who developed chlorine gas a weapon once got one. His wife shot herself because she could not live with the things he had done.

As always, I thumb type everything on a keyboard, thus the horrors of autocorrect rear their ugly head at times, case in point being above.
 
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These books got him the noble prize in literature in 1953. The ones I found were book of the month club hard cover editions. They were printed and sold around the time that each volume was released. All six, with dust jackets, were sitting atop a cart of books next to the big boxes of free over ripe bananas at the Salvation Army.

They were 25 cents a piece, being on the cheap old books cart. A detective novel, called "The Undercover Man" from 1931 was beneath them.

I assume someone bought the books as they came out in the late 40s and early 50s, and that someone cleaned out their "stuff" after they passed, donating the books.

Several of my kids are under the weather today, so I couldn't make it to the gunshow at the fairgrounds. But I take ten or twenty minutes every Saturday to check the books.
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You got an excellent deal I have seen that set well over a $100. He wrote an outstanding volume on our Civil War, too.
American Civil War: Winston S. Churchill: 9780517467794: Amazon.com: Books@@AMEPARAM@@http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ptPia006L.@@AMEPARAM@@41ptPia006L
 
I waded through all six volumes of it as a young man. Interesting historically, but the endless quoting of cables he exchanged with Roosevelt made it something of a test of endurance for me.
 
The first volume is entitled: "The Gathering Storm."
It details how England ignored the warning signs and let Hitler do exactly what he said he would do.

This volume should be required reading of any person seeking to hold any public office that has any influence on American foreign policy.
 
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Churchill had to make a living writing as his income otherwise was extremely low. He covered the 2nd Boer war as both a cavalry officer and as a war correspondent. He continued writing until almost the end of his life. He also wrote fiction in the late 1890s. I have a fair number of the books purchased before I moved to the US in 1968. I think that his Literature Nobel was mainly for his "History of the English-Speaking Peoples", which I thoroughly recommend reading. Dave_n
 
Many years ago I purchased the paperback edition of the series. Interesting reading, but one must take the time to fully appreciate the works.
 
My dad owned that set of 6 and now I have them. Read it years ago, very interesting but it should be remembered that it IS his version of events, and is quite self serving in places. He was a great writer nonetheless.

sent from my phone 'cause I'm too lazy to walk to the laptop..
 
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