Clementine Churchill The Biography of a Marriage

Name: Clementine Churchill The Biography of a Marriage
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ISBN: 9780618267323

ISBN-10: 0618267328

ISBN-13: 9780618267323

Edition: 1979

Authors: Mary Soames

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Clementine Churchill - shy, passionate, and high-strung - shunned publicity but was in the limelight throughout her adult life. As a young woman, her character, intelligence, and good looks won the attention of the impetuous Winston Churchill. Their courtship was swift, but their marriage proved immensely strong, spanning many of the major events of the twentieth century.Written with affection and candor by the Churchills" daughter Mary Soames, this revised and updated biography of a lionhearted couple"s life together is not only of historic interest but deeply moving.

Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 1979
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 8/7/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 704
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English

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



Illustrations


Acknowledgements to the Revised and Updated Edition


Acknowledgements to the First Edition


Family Tree


Preface to the Revised and Updated Edition


Preface to the First Edition



Forebears and Early Childhood



Dieppe and Afterwards



To Thine Own Self Be True



Early Days Together



At the Home Office



Those that Go Down to the Sea in Ships



The Sands Run Out



All Over by Christmas



The Dardanelles



The Place of Honour



Waiting in Silence



Day Must Dawn



Bleak Morning



The Twenties



Chartwell



Herself and Others



Holiday Time



The Thirties



Year of Destiny



Taking up the Load



All in the Day's Work



Conference and Crisis



The Last Lap



The Two Impostors



Swords into Ploughshares



A Woman's Work Is Never Done



Does the Road Wind Up-hill All the Way?



Twilight and Evening Bell



Port after Stormy Seas



Afterwards


Notes and Sources


Select Bibliography


Index