[CHURCHILL, WINSTON S.]. Step by Step 1936 - 1939. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1940.
FOURTH IMPRESSION. Leather-bound; hardcover; octavo (21.5 x 13.5 x 3 cm); pp. 365. English text. Beautifully bound in half calf gilt by Henry Sotheran, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, half-title, two maps (one of these folding). Printed by Butler & Tanner Ltd. Condition: NEAR FINE. A tiny amount of rubbing to the extremities, otherwise an immaculate copy, without previous ownership markings.
Notes: Churchill's powerful collection of articles against appeasement. It is an important book which "belongs on the shelf of every Churchill reader" (Langworth, p. 198). His attacks on the policy of appeasement and calls for Britain to prepare for armed conflict ran counter to the almost unanimous support for appeasement and peace among the British establishment and led to his exclusion from high office throughout these years. He was later vindicated by the German invasion of Poland, and his stance earned him the respect of allied opinion as he took on the position of Britain's wartime leader.
