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HOUGH,RICHARD: : FORMER NAVAL PERSON: CHURCHILL and the Wars at Sea

LONDON.WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON,1985.

ISBN 0297787063.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,contemporary b/w photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Publisher's bright,clean,sharp-cornered,original dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain cream, watermarked,chain-laid endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,viipp+2-244pp [paginated] includes illustrations list/table,12 sections/chapters, 16pp contemporary b/w photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece between pp84/5 and pp148/9 respectively,appendices(2 - [A+B]),source references and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a contents list/table,2 b/w maps,acknowledgements and a Foreword. A soldier by instinct and by inherited martial prowess,it was the Royal Navy which brought Churchill into the full flood of publicity and controversy before the First World War.He did not care for what he found at the Admiralty in 1911 and in his efforts to make the senior service shipshape for the inevitable coming war with Germany,he gave scant regard for the feelings of admirals.By a stroke of fate that almost ended his political career,it was the leading soldier and the leading sailor of their time - Kitchener and Fisher - who were responsible for his downfall amid the minefields and counter-bombardments of the Dardanelles. When he was salvaged from the ruins and returned to power after the years in the wilderness,the Royal Navy welcomed him with the cry,'Winston is back!'. Even when he became Prime Minister nine months later,it was the successful pursuit of the war at sea that remained his first consideration. Within a few days of his return to the Admiralty,Churchill received a friendly overture from President Roosevelt,and there began a steady exchange of communication between the self-styled Former Naval Person and the President of the United States,who was also Commander-in-Chief of the United States Navy.Over the years of the Second World War the alliance and friendship between the two leaders grew warmer and closer,their differences subordinated to the need to win the war. This valuable new contribution (then 1985) to Churchilliana by one of the best-known and most experienced naval historians of today is concerned with the whole of Churchill's stormy association with the navy,and latterly with his remarkable relationship with Franklin D. Roosevelt,which resulted in their momentous achievements during WW2.Richard Hough has had access to the immense riches of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park in New York State,exclusively to the papers of the late Arthur Marder,and numerous other sources,which, together with the fruit of many interviews with retired admirals over the years,provides new material on many aspects of Churchill's relationship with the Royal Navy.This is a highly readable story recounted with the pace Churchill always admired in his admirals. Please contact seller,because of the weight/ value of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

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