Clementine Churchill
Clementine Churchill
Winston always trusted Clementine completely and she became his valuable counsellor and companion. He invariably wanted her opinion - but did not always take her advice. She believed in him unreservedly, and in his destiny. When first published in 1979, CLEMENTINE CHURCHILL won the Yorkshire Post Prize for Best First Work and a Wolfson Prize for History. This major revision makes full use of a wealth of new, intrinsically personal material that has come to light since then and elaborates further on many of the issues raised in the original edition. -Acclaim for CLEMENTINE CHURCHILL:'Uniquely informed by their relationship ...Lady Soames masks shrewd judgement and natural literary skill beneath a cloak of modesty: she has established her mother's place in history. ' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Exemplifies the first principle of biographical writing, namely, that showing what it was like, whatever the subject's rold may have been, takes precedence over everything else. ' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
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Winston always trusted Clementine completely and she became his valuable counsellor and companion. He invariably wanted her opinion - but did not always take her advice. She believed in him unreservedly, and in his destiny. When first published in 1979, CLEMENTINE CHURCHILL won the Yorkshire Post Prize for Best First Work and a Wolfson Prize for History. This major revision makes full use of a wealth of new, intrinsically personal material that has come to light since then and elaborates further on many of the issues raised in the original edition. -Acclaim for CLEMENTINE CHURCHILL:'Uniquely informed by their relationship ...Lady Soames masks shrewd judgement and natural literary skill beneath a cloak of modesty: she has established her mother's place in history. ' MAX HASTINGS, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Exemplifies the first principle of biographical writing, namely, that showing what it was like, whatever the subject's rold may have been, takes precedence over everything else. ' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
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