The untold story of Winston Churchill's precarious finances.
David Lough studied history at Oxford under Richard Cobb and Theodore Zeldin, gaining a First. After a career in financial markets, he founded a business that advises families on investments, tax affairs and inheritance planning.
The little known and sometime heroic saga of Churchill's struggle
to achieve liquidity... [Lough] is a courteous guide, whose
knowledge of the arcane world of investment enables him to explain
what went wrong and how the Churchills managed to scrape through...
a fascinating read'
*The Times*
You can learn a lot about someone from the state of their bank
balance, as David Lough discovers in this riveting examination of
Churchill's finances
*Daily Mail*
Plenty of eye-opening detail... Churchill buffs and economic
historians will find valuable insights in the light Lough sheds
upon the man and his times'
*Financial Times*
This excellent and entertaining work is worth reading
*Prospect Magazine*
Tells the tale of Churchill the adventurer and gambler elegantly.
And for a financial biography, Mr Lough's is a surprising
page-turner
*Economist*
Astonishing revelations... Churchill as financial risk-taker,
spend-thrift, debtor, reckless gambler. This book makes you wholly
rethink the perceived wisdom about the icon'
*William Boyd, The Guardian*
The first book that focuses on his (mainly losing) battle against
borrowing... the detail is excellent'
*The Times (2015 Books of the Year)*
Lough has painstakingly trawled the archives... Lough is excellent
on Churchill's getting and spending... drawing political inferences
from these personal matters'
*Literary Review*
Intriguing... Lough knows where the receipts are buried and reveals
them with great relish'
*Oxford Times.*
The eighty pages of reference notes are testimony to David Lough's
resourcefulness and persistence in research, exposing the
lineaments of this personal story with an ultimately telling
impact
*TLS.*
A fascinating and fresh study of the man'
*Spear's Magazine*
The most original and surprising book about Churchill
*The Week*
A remarkable story of flamboyant improvidence
*Daily Mail*
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