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A biography of the wartime first lady through pictures, with public interest in Clementine Churchill resurgent after Harriet Walter's performance in "The Crown" and Kristin Scott-Thomas's in "The Darkest Hour".
Sommario
FOREWORD 10
INTRODUCTION 12
1885–1908 The Level of Events 20
1908–1914 More Than Meets the Eye 36
1914–1915 The Pain and the Pride 48
1915–1916 I Believe in Your Star 58
1916–1922 Loss Unimaginable 68
1922–1929 A Chandelier’s Life and Sparkle 88
1929–1939 Temptation and Redemption 104
1939–1940 World of Accident and Storm 122
1941–1942 Seduction USA 146
1943–1945 From FDR to Stalin 168
1945–1977 A Private Line 186
EPILOGUE 228
FOOTNOTES 234
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 236
INDEX 238
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 240
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Sonia Purnell is an acclaimed biographer and freelance journalist. After starting her career at the Economist Intelligence Unit she went on to a senior position on the
Daily Telegraph’s City pages, and later moved to the
Daily Mail, where she was Whitehall Editor. Her first book,
Just Boris: A Tale of Blond Ambition, was a candid portrait of London Mayor Boris Johnson, informed by her time working alongside him in Brussels in the 1990s.
First Lady: The Life and Wars of Clementine Churchill was first published in 2015 to great critical acclaim. In March 2019, she published her third book
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of WWII’s Most Dangerous Spy, Virginia Hall, a New York Times bestseller. She lives in London with her husband and two sons.
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The biography of Clementine Churchill, wife of English Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
