Mary Soames
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
viii, 356 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The youngest daughter of Winston Churchill recalls her childhood spent roaming the family's country estate, her position as one of her father's most trusted companions, and her service as a gunner in the women's auxiliary during World War II.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xxx, 384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"I am not a great or important personage, but this will be the diary of an ordinary person's life in war time. Though I may never live to read it again, perhaps it may not prove altogether uninteresting as a record of my life-- or rather the life of a girl in her youth, upon whom life has shone very brightly, who has had every opportunity of education, interest, travel and pleasure and excitement, and who at the beginning of this war found herself...
Author
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
xxv, 702 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In a moving commemoration of the 125th anniversary of Winston Churchill's birth, Soames, his last surviving child (Family Album, 1982; Clementine Churchill, 1979), presents a large selection of the intimate letters of Churchill and his wife, Clementine, from 1909 to 1964. Soames presents the letters both chronologically and topically, starting with the courtship and marriage of the Churchills in 1909 and swiftly moving into Churchill's long career...
