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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. This is a jacketed U.S. first edition, first printing, of the fifth and penultimate volume of Winston Churchill's monumental history of The First World War. A quarter of a century before the Second World War endowed him with lasting fame, Winston Churchill played a uniquely critical, controversial, and varied role in the “War to end all wars”. Then, being Churchill, he wrote about it. The World Crisis was originally published in six volumes between 1923 and 1931, with the first four volumes spanning the war years 1911-1918 and the final two volumes covering the postwar years 1918-1928 (The Aftermath) and the Eastern theatre (The Eastern Front). Unusual among Churchill’s many published books, the U.S. first edition of The World Crisis initially preceded the British, making the U.S. the true first edition. The Aftermath addresses some of the complications and disappointments of peace following the…

The fifth volume in Winston Churchill’s monumental history of World War I, The World Crisis: The Aftermath tells the story of the dissolution of the empires following the war and the challenges faced by the new world order.

First editions have 'First Published in 1929' on the copyright page without any additional printings indicated.