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The World Crisis
''The World Crisis'' is Winston Churchill's account of World War I, originally published in five volumes (usually mistaken for six volumes, as Volume III was published in two parts). Published between 1923 and 1931, in many respects it pre-figures his better known multi-volume ''The Second World War''. ''The World Crisis'' is both analytical and in some parts a justification by Churchill of his role in the War. Churchill is reputed to have said about this work that it was "not history, but a contribution to history." 〔http://www.churchillbooks.com/GuidePDFs/g12.pdf〕
His American biographer William Manchester wrote: "His masterpiece is The World Crisis, published over a period of several years, 1923 to 1931, a six-volume, 3,261-page account of the Great War, beginning with its origins in 1911 and ending with its repercussions in the 1920s. Magnificently written, it is enhanced by the presence of the author at the highest councils of war and in the trenches as a battalion commander." The page total is 2517 pages without the Eastern Front volume. The British historian Robert Rhodes James writes: "For all its pitfalls as history, The World Crisis must surely stand as Churchill’s masterpiece. After it, anything must appear as anticlimax". James further comments that "Churchill’s literary work showed a certain decline in the 1930s", with his ''Marlborough'' and ''The History of the English-Speaking Peoples'' having more of a rhetorical note than The World Crisis.
The news he was writing about the war was all over London; he chose ''The Times'' for the serial rights rather than the magazine ''Metropolitan'', and with advances from his English and American publishers told a guest in 1921 that it was exhilarating to write for half a crown a word (i.e. a pound for eight words). The title was settled as ''The World Crisis'' rather than ''Sea Power and the World Crisis''; Dawson of ''The Times'' had suggested ''The Great Amphibian''. The question of copyright and of quoting confidential government documents was raised by Bonar Law, although other authors e.g. Fisher, Jellicoe and Kitchener had done so.
Successive volumes were published from 1923 to 1931 by Thornton Butterworth in England and Scribner’s in America. The first (American) advances enabled him to purchase a new Rolls-Royce in August 1921. In 1922 he had purchased "Chartwell", a mansion requiring expensive repairs and rebuilding. In the volumes, he justified his position and actions e.g. on the Dardanelles. Reception was generally good; although an unnamed colleague said ''Winston has written an enormous book about himself, and called it "The World Crisis",'' and Arthur Balfour said he was reading Churchill’s ''autobiography disguised as a history of the universe''.
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