RARE 1939 WW 2 Cartoon - WINSTON CHURCHILL [65th Birthday] LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY

Description: It is hard to escape the legacy of the Punch Magazine. From 1841 to 2002, the magazine cast a satirical eye on life in Britain. It charted the interests, concerns and frustrations of the country and today it stands as an invaluable resource not just as cartoon art, but as primary source material for historians.Illustration by Bernard Partridge. Page sized 8 x 10 1/2 inches, shown slightly cropped, pulled from the British humor/satire magazine PUNCH, November 29, 1939, not a modern reproduction. Condition: excellent -- still bright and clean, no handling wear, lays flat for easy framing, backside has unrelated text. THE DEVIL-FISH (With Mr. Punch's best wishes to the First Lord of the Admiralty on his sixty-fifth birthday)."Perhaps the most gratifying event to Churchill during his brief tenure as Lord of the Admiralty was the destruction, forced by ships of the Royal Navy, of the German pocket battleship, Admiral Graf Spee, December 17, 1939, outside Montevideo Harbor, Uruguay. The sea action of this encounter is referred to as "The Battle of the River Plate." The most tragic event was the sinking of the battleship Royal Oak, with the loss of Rear Adm. H.F.C. Blagrove and 832 crew, while at her moorings in the British Home Fleet port of Scapa Flow in the Orkneys, Scotland, October 14, 1939, by the German submarine U-47. While the loss of this veteran WW I warship was not detrimental to the British superiority at sea, the moral effect was enormous. Churchill stated to Parliament, 'This entry by a U-boat must be considered as a remarkable exploit of professional skill and daring.'"Punch, a magazine of humor and satire, ran from 1841-2002. A very British institution renowned internationally for its wit and irreverence, it helped to coin the term "cartoon" in its modern sense as a humorous illustration.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------Questions welcome. Extra images can be added by request. International shipping available. All orders are carefully packaged for safe delivery. Experienced full time professional bookseller since 1994; print, map and poster seller since 2000.

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