2015, ISBN: 9780231109642

Paperback

New York: Time, Inc, 1956. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. Good. Format is approximately 10.4 inches by 14 inches. 196 pages, plus covers. Illustrations (some with c… More...

New York: Time, Inc, 1956. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. Good. Format is approximately 10.4 inches by 14 inches. 196 pages, plus covers. Illustrations (some with color). Civer has some edge wear, soiling creases. Mailing label residue on front cover. Bold, formal portrait of Sir Winston Churchill on the front cover. This issue began the serialization of his "History of the English-Speaking Peoples." Life was an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, and as a monthly from 1978 until 2000. During its golden age from 1936 to 1972, Life was a wide-ranging weekly general-interest magazine known for the quality of its photography. Life was independently published for its first 53 years until 1936 as a general-interest and light entertainment magazine, heavy on illustrations, jokes, and social commentary. It featured some of the greatest writers, editors, illustrators and cartoonists of its time: Charles Dana Gibson, Norman Rockwell and Jacob Hartman Jr. Gibson became the editor and owner of the magazine after John Ames Mitchell died in 1918. In 1936, Time publisher Henry Luce bought Life, only wanting its title: he greatly re-made the publication. Life became the first all-photographic American news magazine, and it dominated the market for several decades. Possibly the best-known photograph published in the magazine was Alfred Eisenstaedt's photograph of a nurse in a sailor's arms, taken on August 14, 1945, as they celebrated Victory over Japan Day in New York City. The magazine's role in the history of photojournalism is considered its most important contribution to publishing. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, (30 November 1874 - 24 January 1965) was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Although best known for his wartime leadership as Prime Minister, Churchill was also a Sandhurst-educated soldier, a Nobel Prize-winning writer and historian, a prolific painter, and one of the longest-serving politicians in British history. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, he was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which he led from 1940 to 1955. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples is a four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies and possessions throughout the world, written by Winston Churchill, covering the period from Caesar's invasions of Britain (55 BC) to the end of the Second Boer War (1902). It was started in 1937 and finally published 1956-1958, delayed several times by war and his work on other texts. Churchill, who excelled in the study of history as a child and whose mother was American, had a firm belief in a so-called "special relationship" between the people of Britain and its Commonwealth (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, etc.) united under the Crown, and the people of the United States who had broken with the Crown and gone their own way. His book thus dealt with the resulting two divisions of the "English-speaking peoples". At the independent suggestions of British publisher Newman Flower and American editor Max Perkins, Churchill began the history during the 1930s, during the period that his official biographer Martin Gilbert termed the "wilderness years" when he was not in government. Work was interrupted in 1939 when the Second World War broke out and Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty and became Prime Minister a year later. After the war ended in 1945, Churchill was busy, first writing his history of that conflict and then as Prime Minister again between 1951 and 1955, so it was not until the mid 1950s, when Churchill was in his early eighties, that he was able to finish his work. The books were bestsellers and reviewed favorably on both sides of the Atlantic. In The Daily Telegraph, J.H. Plumb wrote: "This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what Englishmen in the heyday of their empire thought and felt about their country's past.", Time, Inc, 1956, 2.5, New York, U S A: Columbia University Press, 1997. VG+. First paperback edition, first printing. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, MARTIN GILBERT, on title-page. Inscription reads, 'To ----/with the author's regards/Martin Gilbert'. xvi,480pp. Profusely illustrated with photographs and maps. This is the diary of Gilbert's group of travellers - including Jews and non-Jews, a German Christian woman, and a Jewish survivor of several slave labour camps. Martin Gilbert (1936-2015) was asked by a group of his graduate students in 1996 to lead them on one of history's greatest human tragedies. Their two week journey culminated in this powerful travel narrative. With Bibliography and Index. A very good plus copy of a SCARCE first paperback edition, first printing SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, MARTIN GILBERT. . Presentation Copy Inscribed And Signed. First Paperback Edition, First Printing. Paperback. Very Good Plus., Columbia University Press, 1997, 3<

1997, ISBN: 0231109644

Paperback, First edition

[EAN: 9780231109642], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Columbia University Press, New York, U S A], SIGNED. AUTOGRAPHED. HISTORY. MILITARY. MILITARY DIARIES. JEWISH HOLOCAUST. ADOLF HI… More...

[EAN: 9780231109642], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Columbia University Press, New York, U S A], SIGNED. AUTOGRAPHED. HISTORY. MILITARY. MILITARY DIARIES. JEWISH HOLOCAUST. ADOLF HITLER. JUDAICA. JUDAISM. RACE. RACIAL STUDIES. NAZIS. SLAVE LABOUR CAMPS. CONCENTRATION WAR. WARFARE. WW2. WORLD WAR TWO. SECOND NAZISM. ATTROCITIES. NAZI ANTISEMITISM. POLAND., VG+. First paperback edition, first printing. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, MARTIN GILBERT, on title-page. Inscription reads, 'To ----/with the author's regards/Martin Gilbert'. xvi,480pp. Profusely illustrated with photographs and maps. This is the diary of Gilbert's group of travellers - including Jews and non-Jews, a German Christian woman, and a Jewish survivor of several slave labour camps. Martin Gilbert (1936-2015) was asked by a group of his graduate students in 1996 to lead them on one of history's greatest human tragedies. Their two week journey culminated in this powerful travel narrative. With Bibliography and Index. A very good plus copy of a SCARCE first paperback edition, first printing SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, MARTIN GILBERT., Books<

ISBN: 9780231109642

Breaking new ground in cultural, political, and social history, Rossinow tells the story of the new left-wing movement that emerged in the 1960s from an innovative perspective: illustrati… More...

Breaking new ground in cultural, political, and social history, Rossinow tells the story of the new left-wing movement that emerged in the 1960s from an innovative perspective: illustrating the spiritual dimension of student activism and providing the first account from the bottom up -- as well as linking local developments to the national scene., Gut, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], Edition Description: Revised, Publication Date: 1998-10-15, Language: English, Publication Year: 1998-10-15, Manufacturer/Packer/Importer Details: ERGODE, Net Quantity/Number of Units: 1, Dimensions (LxWxH) - Cms: 9X1.15X6, ISBN-10: 023111057X, ISBN-13: 9780231109642, SKU: SONG023111057X, EAN: 9780231109642, Columbia University Press<