The Second World War - Volume VI - Triumph and Tragedy
Cassell & Co, Ltd,1954, Very good condition with dustwrapper, 11 pull-out maps, a little foxing on page edges
Note - Volume 6 only
With this 6th volume Sir Winston Churchill brings to an end his history of the Second World War. It covers the whole of the tremendous climax from the Anglo-American landings in Normandy on 6th June, 1944 until the surrender of all our enemies fourteen months later - a period which saw D-Day and the invasion of Europe, the bombardment of Britain by VI's and rockets, the martyrdom of Warsaw, victory in Burma, the Yalta Conference, the death of Roosevelt, the murder of Mussolini, the suicide of Hitler, the unconditional surrender of Germany, the Potsdam Conference, the use of the Atom Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the unconditional surrender of Japan...