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Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 Arms and the Covenant: speeches on Foreign Affairs and National Defense by the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC01750.01 Author/Creator: Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 Place Written: London, England Type: Book signed Date: 1940 Pagination: 465 p. ; 23 x 16 cm. Order a Copy

Inscribed by Winston Churchill on the free front endpaper to Sumner Welles, President Roosevelt's special envoy, and dated March 1940. First edition compiled by Randolph S. Churchill. Published by George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.

Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
Churchill, Randolph Henry Spencer, 1849-1895
Welles, Sumner, 1892-?

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