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Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 88

CHURCHILL, Winston S Two printed galley-proofs, one signed (...

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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Two printed galley-proofs, one signed ("WSC"), 10 February 1950 and 19 April 1950. Together 16 pages 14¾ x 6¼ . HEAVILY EMENDED AND CORRECTED IN CHURCHILL'S HAND, with additional corrections in the hand of C. C. Wood.
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Two printed galley-proofs, one signed ("WSC"), 10 February 1950 and 19 April 1950. Together 16 pages 14¾ x 6¼ . HEAVILY EMENDED AND CORRECTED IN CHURCHILL'S HAND, with additional corrections in the hand of C. C. Wood. "THIS DECISIVE EVENT IN THE WAR ALONE RENDERED POSSIBLE THE SUPREME OPERATIONS OF 1944" Churchill famously said that "the only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril." Without control of the Atlantic and a safe and steady flow of men and supplies, Britain could never hope to win the war. This crucial story is told dramatically in this heavily corrected and edited draft galley for volume four of The Second World War . The 10 February galley is the most heavily edited of the two-beginning with the crucial change in Churchill's hand on the title page: altering the flat formulation of "Mastery of the U-Boats" to "The U-Boat Mastered." The second galley, dated 14 April 1950, incorporates the changes in the earlier galley, and is initialed by Churchill. As late as November 1942, Churchill writes, "Allied losses at sea...were the heaviest of the whole war." He adds in holograph: "At the same time all our escorts had to be cut to the bone for the sake of 'Torch,'" the code name of the American landings on North Africa. The battle was turned by two factors: massive American production which put more ships into the waters than the German U-Boats could sink, and--something Churchill dared not reveal in 1950--the use of ULTRA intercepts to locate and destroy the German wolf packs. By June 1943, "the shipping losses fell to the lowest figure recorded since the United States had entered the war. The convoys were coming through intact and the Atlantic supply line was safe." Adding in holograph: "This decisive event in the war alone rendered possible the supreme operations of 1944." The 19 April proof has only two typographical changes, but is initialed by Churchill in red pencil on the upper right corner of the title-page: "WSC." Although drafted originally for volume four of the work-- The Hinge of Fate --this text was ultimately used, in altered form, in chapter one of volume six, "The Command of the Seas." A remarkable documentary insight into Churchill's working methods as an author. (2)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 88
Auktion:
Datum:
06.12.2013
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
6 December 2013, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

CHURCHILL, Winston S. Two printed galley-proofs, one signed ("WSC"), 10 February 1950 and 19 April 1950. Together 16 pages 14¾ x 6¼ . HEAVILY EMENDED AND CORRECTED IN CHURCHILL'S HAND, with additional corrections in the hand of C. C. Wood.
CHURCHILL, Winston S. Two printed galley-proofs, one signed ("WSC"), 10 February 1950 and 19 April 1950. Together 16 pages 14¾ x 6¼ . HEAVILY EMENDED AND CORRECTED IN CHURCHILL'S HAND, with additional corrections in the hand of C. C. Wood. "THIS DECISIVE EVENT IN THE WAR ALONE RENDERED POSSIBLE THE SUPREME OPERATIONS OF 1944" Churchill famously said that "the only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril." Without control of the Atlantic and a safe and steady flow of men and supplies, Britain could never hope to win the war. This crucial story is told dramatically in this heavily corrected and edited draft galley for volume four of The Second World War . The 10 February galley is the most heavily edited of the two-beginning with the crucial change in Churchill's hand on the title page: altering the flat formulation of "Mastery of the U-Boats" to "The U-Boat Mastered." The second galley, dated 14 April 1950, incorporates the changes in the earlier galley, and is initialed by Churchill. As late as November 1942, Churchill writes, "Allied losses at sea...were the heaviest of the whole war." He adds in holograph: "At the same time all our escorts had to be cut to the bone for the sake of 'Torch,'" the code name of the American landings on North Africa. The battle was turned by two factors: massive American production which put more ships into the waters than the German U-Boats could sink, and--something Churchill dared not reveal in 1950--the use of ULTRA intercepts to locate and destroy the German wolf packs. By June 1943, "the shipping losses fell to the lowest figure recorded since the United States had entered the war. The convoys were coming through intact and the Atlantic supply line was safe." Adding in holograph: "This decisive event in the war alone rendered possible the supreme operations of 1944." The 19 April proof has only two typographical changes, but is initialed by Churchill in red pencil on the upper right corner of the title-page: "WSC." Although drafted originally for volume four of the work-- The Hinge of Fate --this text was ultimately used, in altered form, in chapter one of volume six, "The Command of the Seas." A remarkable documentary insight into Churchill's working methods as an author. (2)

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 88
Auktion:
Datum:
06.12.2013
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
6 December 2013, New York, Rockefeller Center
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