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CHURCHILL, Winston S. Autograph letter signed ("W."), to his brother, Jack Churchill, London, 24 August 1914. 3 pages, 8vo, Admiralty stationery.
"UNLESS WE WIN, I DO NOT WANT TO LIVE ANY MORE. BUT WE WILL."
A stirring letter written in the early weeks of the Great War after the early clashes between British and German troops in Belgium. "The news from Belgium is disappointing & may be serious. Our men seem to have stood up well to them & no doubt exacted a heavy forfeit. No one can tell how far this great adventure may carry us all. Unless we win, I do not want to live any more. But we will." He mentions talking with Lord Kitchener "about the yeomanry...I am sure the right steps will be taken. It will make me vy anxious if you go to the front, & me tied here! But I shall find my way there before the end." He mentions a relation, but cannot long keep off the subject of the war: "After all this is a gt moment in the history of the world & of our small country & we must all try to act so as to make them like to read about it in the years that will follow..."
"UNLESS WE WIN, I DO NOT WANT TO LIVE ANY MORE. BUT WE WILL."
A stirring letter written in the early weeks of the Great War after the early clashes between British and German troops in Belgium. "The news from Belgium is disappointing & may be serious. Our men seem to have stood up well to them & no doubt exacted a heavy forfeit. No one can tell how far this great adventure may carry us all. Unless we win, I do not want to live any more. But we will." He mentions talking with Lord Kitchener "about the yeomanry...I am sure the right steps will be taken. It will make me vy anxious if you go to the front, & me tied here! But I shall find my way there before the end." He mentions a relation, but cannot long keep off the subject of the war: "After all this is a gt moment in the history of the world & of our small country & we must all try to act so as to make them like to read about it in the years that will follow..."