The personal letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill.
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.
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
*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
*Spectator*
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