Churchill at War: His "Finest Hour" in Photographs 1940-1945.

First edition of this photographic biography documenting Winston Churchill’s leadership during WWII. Square quarto, original publisher's cloth, pictorial endpapers, title page vignette, profusely illustrated with black and white photographs of Churchill. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the half-title page, "To Chirs - with the author's warm regards and all good wishes Martin Washington D.C. 30th April 2004." The recipient, Christopher H. Sterling (1943-2023), was the distinguished Professor of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University and one of the foremost historians of American electronic media and telecommunications, maintained throughout his career a deep and abiding passion for Winston Churchill that went well beyond casual admiration. An avid book collector nearly all his life, Sterling developed a substantial collection on Sir Winston Churchill alongside his other collecting interests, and was a member of several Churchill Societies. He published articles on Churchill as one of his primary scholarly avocations, bringing to that subject the same bibliographic precision and archival instinct that defined his professional work in telecommunications history. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Accompanied by a letter from Abigail Cleaves of W.W. Norton & Company describing the book laid in. Picture credits to the Imperial War Museum.