Clementine Churchill Pa - Couverture souple

Soames, Mary

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0618267328 ISBN 13 : 9780618267323

Editeur : Mariner, 2003

Synopsis

Clementine Churchill Clementine Churchill -- shy, passionate, and high-strung -- shunned publicity but was in the limelight throughout her adult life. As a young woman, her character, intelligence, and good looks won the attention of the impetuous Winston Churchill. Their courtship was swift, but their marriage proved immensely strong, spanning many of the major events of the twentieth century. Written with affection and candor by the Churchills' daughter Mary Soames, this revised and updated biography of a lionhearted couple's life together is not only of historic interest but deeply moving.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Mary Soames (1922-2014) was the youngest child of Winston and Clementine Churchill. She was brought up at Chartwell in Kent and, aged eighteen, joined the ATS and served in mixed anti-aircraft batteries in England and 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. In 1998 she edited the private correspondence between her parents, Speaking for Themselves, completely revised and updated the celebrated biography of her mother, Clementine Churchill, in 2002 and completed her own autobiography, A Daughter’s Tale, in 2011.

Revue de presse

"There can surely be no more difficult task than to write a biography of one's own mother; but Mary Soames has been brilliantly successful." (Daily Telegraph)

"A delightful book...affectionate and also frank." (A.J.P. Taylor Observer)

"Lady Soames has carried out the extremely delicate and difficult task of writing the real story of her mother. I found it particularly moving because I had a deep affection for her father and mother." (Harold Macmillan)

"The finest biography for a decade" (Lynda Lee Potter)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mariner
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0618267328
• ISBN 13: 9780618267323
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 704