ROOSEVELT AND CHURCHILL’S WARTIME CORRESPONDENCE
LOEWENHEIM, Francis L., LANGLEY, Harold D. and JONAS, Manfred. Roosevelt and Churchill: Their Secret Wartime Correspondence. London: Barrie & Jenkins, (1975). Octavo, modern three-quarter navy morocco, raised bands, spine compartments decorated with gilt Churchill lion emblems.
First English edition of the correspondence between these two World War II leaders, with 31 black-and-white photographs.
"The first attempt at publishing the voluminous Roosevelt-Churchill correspondence, some of which was still under wraps at the time" (Zoller A408); includes "most, although not all, of the 548 letters, messages and notes by Churchill and Roosevelt exchanged between 11 September 1939 and 11 April 1945, the date of Roosevelt's last message to Churchill, sent on the day before he died" (Cohen A285.1). Published simultaneously in the United States. Cohen A285.2.
A fine copy, handsomely bound.