Speaking For Themselves
The Private Letters Of Sir Winston And Lady Churchill
$62.28
- Paperback
768 pages
- Release Date
22 October 1999
Summary
The personal letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill.
The fascinating, insightful and often moving correspondence between Sir Winston and Lady Clementine Churchill extends from their early days of innocent courtship in 1908 to Winston Churchill’s death in 1965.
The letters serve not only as a chronicle of their personal achievements and tragedies over the years, but also as a political and social history. In their own words, Winston and Clementine recount some of the most …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780552997508 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0552997501 |
| Author: | Mary Soames |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Black Swan |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 768 |
| Release Date: | 22 October 1999 |
| Weight: | 883g |
| Dimensions: | 233mm x 153mm x 57mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
The record of a remarkably enduring marriage
The record of a remarkably enduring marriage * The Scotsman *
Lady Soames, the Churchills’ sole surviving child… has edited these letters with great skill, providing a lively commentary and vivid pen portraits of supporting characters – Piers Brendon * Mail on Sunday *
We expect the correspondence of Winston Churchill and his wife, Clementine, to be interesting… and still these letters can astonish: in their scope; in the way their individual brilliance is sustained day by day and year upon year * Sunday Telegraph *
A fascinating aid to our understanding of an extraordinary couple – John Grigg * Spectator *
About The Author
Mary Soames
Mary Soames is the youngest and only surviving child of Winston and Clementine Churchill. She was born in 1922 and brought up at Chartwell in Kent. In 1941, aged eighteen, she joined the ATS and served in mixed anti-aircraft batteries in England and north-west Europe. She accompanied her father as his ADC on several of his wartime overseas journeys. In 1945 she was awarded the MBE (military). In 1947 she married Captain Christopher Soames, Coldstream Guards, later Lord Soames, PC, GCMG, CH. She has also written A Churchill Family Album, The Profligate Duke, Winston Churchill, His Life as a Painter and edited Speaking For Themselves the personal letters between Winston and Clementine Churchill.
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