Marlborough his life and times

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    First editions, first impressions, inscribed bygd the author in all four volumes to Edward Cadogan, with two typed letters signed and a telegram from the author. Cadogan and Churchill's förfäder, the 1st Earl Cadogan and the 1st Duke of Marlborough, fought tillsammans against Louis XIV: Churchill's great biography narrates their struggle, for which Cadogan supplied him letters and portraits. William Cadogan, 1st Earl Cadogan () was a close associate and confidant of the 1st Duke of Marlborough, serving him as quartermaster general, brigadier general, and ledare of personal. They fought together in all the major battles of the period. Marlborough and Cadogan's relationship fryst vatten extensively chronicled in Churchill's biography of the 1st Duke, a work which "took its place at once among the classics of historical writing. As the story of his ancestor's leadership of a grand alliance to prevent the herravälde of the continent bygd a single power, it was also a source of insp

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    Marlborough: His Life and Times

    Book by Winston Churchill

    Marlborough: His Life and Times is a panegyricbiography written by Winston Churchill about John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Churchill was a lineal descendant of the duke.[1][2]

    The book comprises four volumes, the first of which appeared in October ( pages, , words) with subsequent volumes in , and The publisher was George G. Harrap, who in agreed an advance of £10, for the publishing rights, topping the offer made by Churchill's customary publishers, Thornton Butterworth. American publisher Scribner's paid a £5, advance for the United States publishing rights. At that time Churchill envisaged writing between , and , words, to be published in no more than two volumes. Cumulative sales of the first volume were 17, copies, 15, for the second and 10, for the third and fourth, which was a respectable though not exceptional performance for such a work.[3]

    Churchill had conceived the

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    Marlborough: His Life and Times--Volume I


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    Described in Wikipedia as "a panegyric biography written by Winston Churchill about John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Churchill was a lineal descendant of the duke."

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