1/14/2024 0 Comments Second front free endpaperDisgraced and disillusioned, Dorman-Smith returned to his home in Ireland and changed his name to O’Gowan. Montgomery replaced Auchinleck and Dorman-Smith was given command of a brigade in Italy before being dismissed and involuntarily retiring in 1944. Three months later in August 1942 Winston Churchill ordered a complete restructuring of the Middle East command. In 1942 Auchinleck assumed command of the Eighth Army, and Dorman-Smith was promoted to acting major-general. In WWII Dorman-Smith’s tactical advice played a key role in Italy’s defeat at Beda Fomm. Eric Edward Dorman-Smith (1895-1969) served in WWI with such distinction (awarded the Military Cross for his efforts in the trenches of Ypres) that his friend Ernest Hemingway later fictionalized him as the hero of Across the River and Into the Trees. The story of this footnote involves a Second World War General fired by Churchill. At page 416 a typewritten sheet is laid in bearing additional copy for a footnote added in later editions. We confirmed that these corrections, ranging from simple letter case corrections to reworded sentences, were incorporated into later printings and editions. When Cassell secured publication rights to Churchill’s war memoirs, it was “perhaps the greatest coup of twentieth century publishing.” Nonetheless, the volumes were published with both stylistic and substantive flaws, as evidenced by the number of corrections made by Cassell staff in this publisher’s copy of the fourth volume. We also include a loose copyright page with corrections for the “Fourth edition, third impression August 1977”. The top of one sheet reads: “30231 Second World War Vol. Accompanying are 14 oversized, single sided galley sheets measuring 25.125 x 7.125 inches (63.8 x 18.1 cm). The contents are free of toning and spotting. A cosmetic split to the endpapers at the front gutter exposes the intact mull beneath and does not affect binding integrity. The original black cloth is surprisingly clean for a publisher’s working copy, the binding square, the spine gilt bright, the corners sharp, and the page edges clean save the “Editorial” stamp on the top edge. (A misnomer that likely refers to a later printing of the second British edition. This copy features 55 handwritten emendations and resided in Cassell’s editorial department until at least, when it was used for the edition referred to as “4th 3rd”. This first edition, first printing of the fourth volume of Churchill’s history of the Second World War is noteworthy - a working copy from the publisher’s archives, stamped “Editorial” on the front free endpaper and top edge.
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