Winston Churchill
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1 (of 1) A preface dictated and signed by Winston Churchill, whose secretary typewrote all his books. The preface was for Erik Bergengren's book Alfred Nobel – the man and his work, published in English 1962. From the archives of the Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden.
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