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First edition.A deluxe copy in a special cardboard binding, with gold gilt embossing on the front cover of the United States Congress, with a name sheet added at the head, addressed to Anthony Eden:
"For the Lord Avon from John F. Flynt Jr A Representative in the Congress of the United States of America 24 January 1966".
This precious copy is dedicated to Anthony Eden, Churchill's former Foreign Secretary during the war and British Prime Minister in 1951, following Winston Churchill. The volume is a gift from Representative John J. Flynt Jr. of Georgia, a Democrat who served in the US House of Representatives from 1954 to 1979.
Winston Churchill died on 24 January 1965 at the age of 90: it was the first state funeral for a non-royal since Edward Carson and will remain the most recent state funeral in the UK until Queen Elizabeth II's funeral on 19 September. With President Johnson unwell, the United States sent Chief Justice Earl Warren, former President Dwight D. Eisenhowern, Secretary of State Dean… Read More
