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Clementine Churchill: The Biography of a Marriage Paperback – August 7, 2003
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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.
- Print length704 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherMariner Books
- Publication dateAugust 7, 2003
- Dimensions6 x 1.63 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100618267328
- ISBN-13978-0618267323
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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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- Publisher : Mariner Books; Updated,Subsequent edition (August 7, 2003)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 704 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0618267328
- ISBN-13 : 978-0618267323
- Item Weight : 2.1 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.63 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #326,526 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #521 in Historical British Biographies
- #1,203 in Women in History
- #3,684 in Women's Biographies
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Mary Soames (1922-2014) was born Mary Spencer-Churchill, the youngest of Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine's five children. Her wartime diaries are collected in Mary Churchill’s War, edited by her daughter, Emma Soames.
Mary Soames also wrote an acclaimed biography of her mother, Clementine Churchill (first published in 1979) and edited Speaking for Themselves, a collection of the personal letters between Winston and Clementine Churchill. Her memoir A Daughter’s Tale was published in 2011, three years before her death.
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Basically, their family lived most of their lives on Winston's pen.
He was inspirational, brilliant and effective in leading the British people through World War II and in the early 1950's. At all times, Clementine was his rock, a beneficent leader of her own causes to help people who were suffering. She personally witnessed the Russian people's suffering when she visited Russia. After that she began a fund for Russia, raising millions of English pounds. She was honored over and over again for instance with an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Finally,she was made a Baronness and actually served in the House of Lords.
books about her life and this is one of the best. It was writen by her daughter.
I liked reading about her childhood. I believe it certainly formed her personality.
Without delving too deeply,i think her youth "hurt" part of her and yet made her
strong in other ways. Clementine is just as important as Winston. What a great
lady she was! I will remember her always.
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The author succeeds in interweaving domestic life with national and international events at the time. It is very interesting to read of happenings in the Churchill circle while during the first half of the last century.
I had read Mary Soames' "A Daughter's Tale" and knew I would not be daunted by this more lengthy tome.
I bought this as a present so I shall have to wait to hear what my wife says of it.
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