The Second World War. Volume IV. The Hinge of Fate

London England: Cassel & Co. Very Good/No Jacket. 1951. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hardback Mr. Churchill has called this volume The Hinge of Fate because in it the Western powers turn from almost uninterrupted defeat to almost unbroken success. On the 17th January, 1942, Mr. Churchill landed once more at Plymouth, and it is at this point that the narrative of the present volume opens. It tells first of the heavy blows which fell upon the newly-formed Alliance as the Japanese struck by land and by sea, and in Libya the Afrika Korps advanced to its farthest points with some tanks cruising almost in the outskirts of Alexandria. From the nadir, enought to bring despair to all but the most resolute, there follows the slow but thereafter ever-steady climb to a vastly changed position of comparative security. From the line of Alamein Rommel is thrown back. In North Africa the British land and fight soldier to shouldier for the first time with their as-yet untried American allies. Mr. Churchill journeys to Moscow, to Cairo, to Casablanca, and once again to Washington. The Afrika Korps ceases to exist. In the Pacific too, despite the heavy blows endured, the tide has turned. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.) .