On the centenary of Sir Winston Churchill’s birth, a definitive edition of his complete works was prepared for publication in Great Britain in a limited edition edited by the Churchill scholar Tom Hartman. That was in 1974; and now, some fifteen years later, Hartman, working with the British publishers Leo Cooper Ltd., has begun republishing the same texts (but with newly written forewords by himself) in a commercial edition.
Copyright restrictions that did not apply to the 1974 Centenary Edition because it was a limited edition prevent the publication of many of these volumes; so Leo Cooper cannot reprint the complete works of Churchill, but says he will offer such volumes as he can.
Of the Cooper volumes that have already appeared, a few have been printed in an American edition by W. W. Norton & Co. They are selected from Churchill’s earliest works. The volumes are handsomely presented, uniform in appearance, and wear matching dust jackets. Tom Hartman’s forewords offer useful bibliographic information about each book.
The volumes issued by Norton are Churchill’s first book, The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898); his fourth and fifth books, London to Ladysmith via Pretoria and Ian Hamilton’s March (both 1900), issued in one volume under the title The Boer War (bestowed upon it, not by Churchill, but by the editor of this edition in 1974); and his eighth book, My African Journey (1908).
Of works dating from the same period in Churchill’s life, Norton is
