Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002 - Biography & Autobiography - 621 pages

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.

 

Contents

Forebears and Early Childhood
1
Dieppe and Afterwards
19
To Thine Own Self Be True
34
Early Days Together
54
At the Home Off1ce
68
Those that Go Down to the Sea in Ships
88
The Sands Run Out
101
All Over by Christmas
123
The Thirties
303
IV
326
Taking up the Load
338
V
354
VI
376
VII
411
The Two Impostors
417
Swords into Ploughshares
440

The Dardanelles
134
The Place of Honour
151
Waiting in Silence
175
Day Must Dawn
198
Bleak Morning
217
The Twenties
232
I
264
II
276
III
283
A Womans Work Is Never Done
460
Does the Road Wind Uphill All the Way?
490
Twilight and Evening Bell
510
Port after Stormy Seas
530
Afterwards
546
Notes and Sources
574
Select Bibliography
593
Index
597
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About the author (2002)

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.

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