Winston and Clementine The Personal Letters of the Churchills

Name: Winston and Clementine The Personal Letters of the Churchills
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ISBN: 9780618082513

ISBN-10: 0618082514

ISBN-13: 9780618082513

Edition: 2001

Authors: Mary Soames

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Winston and Clementine Churchill wrote to each other constantly throughout the fifty-seven years of their life together, from the passionate and charming exchanges of their courtship until the year before Winston's death in 1965. Their letters provide rare and revealing insights into both the great political and social events of a turbulent century and the intimate world of an extraordinary partnership. Mary Soames, the only surviving child of this remarkable couple, has brought her parents to life as no biographer could. In moving detail we hear of Churchill's dramatic career and his final, deeply felt reflections on the fading of his enormous powers. And we hear Clementine, responding…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 2/14/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 768
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 2.25" tall
Weight: 2.530
Language: English

Mary Soames, born in 1922, is the youngest & only surviving child of Winston & Clementine Churchill.



List of Illustrations


List of Maps


Preface


Acknowledgements


Editor's Note


Family Tree


Introduction



Courtship and Marriage



Setting Out



Home Office



Admiralty



Harvest of War



The Dardanelles



'Plug Street'



His True Place



Last Heave



Piping in Peace



Dark Year



No Seat, No Party, No Appendix



Number Eleven



'Westward, Look, The Land is Bright!'



'Not Wanted on Voyage'



'But There's an Island Yonder...



Darkening Horizons



None So Deaf



Peace With Dishonour



Into the Breach Again



Journeyings and Parleyings



Tide of Victory



Worlds Apart



Blessing in Disguise



No. 10 Again



Time to Go



Seeking Sunshine



'Keep Right on to the End of the Road'



Lengthening Shadows


Biographical Notes


Nicknames and Aliases


Bibliography


Index