Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills - Rilegato

Churchill, Winston, Sir; Churchill, Clementine

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ISBN 10: 0395963192 ISBN 13: 9780395963197

Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999

Riassunto

Spanning the fifty-seven years of the Churchills' lives together, a collection of letters, edited by their only surviving child, offers an intimate portrait of a remarkable partnership and provides intriguing insights into the great social and political events of the twentieth century. 20,000 first printing.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Mary Soames, born in 1922, is the youngest and only surviving child of Winston and Clementine Churchill. During World War II she served in mixed antiaircraft batteries in England and northwestern Europe and accompanied her father as an aide on several wartime overseas journeys. In 1947 she married Captain Christopher Soames, later Lord Soames, the politician and diplomat, a vice president of the European Commission and the last governor of Southern Rhodesia. He died in 1987; they had five children. She is the author of Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage, which won the Wolfson Prize for history, A Churchill Family Album, The Profligate Duke, and Winston Churchill: His Life as a Painter.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0395963192
• ISBN 13: 9780395963197
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 702
• Redattore: Soames Mary
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