Letters for the ages : the private and personal letters of Sir Winston Churchill /
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965,
Letters for the ages : the private and personal letters of Sir Winston Churchill / Sir Winston S. Churchill ; foreword by Michael Dobbs ; edited by James Drake and Allen Packwood. - xviii, 238 pages : illustrations, photographs (black and white)
"Here are some of the best of Churchill's letters, many of a more personal and intimate nature. The recipients include a vast range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President Eisenhower. Winston Churchill has become an iconic figure greatly admired the world over. Churchill understood the power of words and he used his writing to sustain and complement his political career, publishing over 40 books and receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. This volume concentrates on his more intimate words. It seeks to show the private man behind the public figure and introduce fresh light on Churchill's character and personality by capturing the drama, immediacy, storms, depressions, passions and challenges of Churchill's extraordinary career. These letters take us into his world and allow us to follow the changes in his motivations and beliefs as he navigates his 90 years. There are intimate letters to his parents, his teacher at Harrow, his wife Clementine, Prime Minister Asquith, Lord Northcliffe, Anthony Eden, President Roosevelt, Eamon De Valera, the French Socialist Prime Minister Léon Blum and Charles De Gaulle. These letters are enhanced by facsimiles and images which appear throughout the book, helping the reader to envisage a sense of Churchill in his most private moments."--
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Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 --Correspondence.
Prime ministers--Correspondence.--Great Britain
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Letters for the ages : the private and personal letters of Sir Winston Churchill / Sir Winston S. Churchill ; foreword by Michael Dobbs ; edited by James Drake and Allen Packwood. - xviii, 238 pages : illustrations, photographs (black and white)
"Here are some of the best of Churchill's letters, many of a more personal and intimate nature. The recipients include a vast range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President Eisenhower. Winston Churchill has become an iconic figure greatly admired the world over. Churchill understood the power of words and he used his writing to sustain and complement his political career, publishing over 40 books and receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. This volume concentrates on his more intimate words. It seeks to show the private man behind the public figure and introduce fresh light on Churchill's character and personality by capturing the drama, immediacy, storms, depressions, passions and challenges of Churchill's extraordinary career. These letters take us into his world and allow us to follow the changes in his motivations and beliefs as he navigates his 90 years. There are intimate letters to his parents, his teacher at Harrow, his wife Clementine, Prime Minister Asquith, Lord Northcliffe, Anthony Eden, President Roosevelt, Eamon De Valera, the French Socialist Prime Minister Léon Blum and Charles De Gaulle. These letters are enhanced by facsimiles and images which appear throughout the book, helping the reader to envisage a sense of Churchill in his most private moments."--
9781399408172 9781399408134 9781399408141
GBC3A2951 bnb
021070486 Uk
Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 --Correspondence.
Prime ministers--Correspondence.--Great Britain
920