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To maintain the pace at which he worked as a parliamentarian, cabinet minister, war leader, writer, and painter, Churchill required a vast female staff of secretaries, typists, and others. Drawing on the wealth of oral testimonies of Churchill's many secretaries held in the Churchill Archive in Cambridge, Cita Stelzer brings to life the experiences of a legion of women whose stories have hitherto remained unpublished in journals and letters. In recapturing their memories of working for and with Churchill, she paints an original and memorable biographical portrait of one of the 20th century's iconic statesmen.

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Cita Stelzer is a freelance journalist and a Research Associate at the Hudson Institute. She is currently a Reader at Churchill College, Cambridge, and a Board member of the Churchill Centre. She is author of Dinner with Churchill: Policy-making at the Dinner Table. Randolph Churchill is

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Cita Stelzer received a BA degree from Barnard College, with a major in history, worked in educational publishing, and has been a stringer for the Financial Times. She founded a public relations firm in New York City, and served as special aide to Mayor John Lindsay and to Governor Hugh Carey, before joining an economic consulting firm specializing in regulatory policy.

She is an Advisor to the Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, a member of the Board of Advisers of the International Churchill Society, a former Trustee of Wigmore Hall, the venerable chamber music venue in London, and has been a member of the Board of Trustees and Vice Chairman of the Aspen Musical Festival and School. Her first book, Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table, was published in 2011.

Why I wrote Dinner with Churchill: Policy-Making at the Dinner Table

By Cita Stelzer

In the course of many years spent reading biographies of and books about Winston Churchill I realized that I had learned little about how this man planned the meals at which he had accomplished so much. After all, most of the deals that were struck at the famous international conferences held during WWII were made at or facilitated by dinners at which the leaders were more relaxed than at formal sessions.

So I began digging into the Churchill Archives at Churchill College, Cambridge. Not only did I find menus for the more famous dinners with Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, and Stalin. But there were details of Churchill careful setting of the stages for dinners with his generals, political friends and foes, leading academics and a host of other interesting people. In addition, I found bills for dinners at Claridges, the Ritz and The Savoy, with guests lists, amended wine selections, letters from Churchill and his staff complaining about over-billing, letters from Churchill thanking friends for the gifts of foods and wines, all in the Archives as set out in my book.

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Frank

Nothing new but still a good read.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 3, 2021

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A nice read. It's a book of the reminiscences of the secretaries that worked for Winston Churchill and what it was like working for him. Nothing earth shattering or surprising here. Pretty much what we already know and that is it can be somewhat demanding working for someone who was demanding of himself as well.

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A Fascinating Glimpse of Winston's Women Workers

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 15, 2019

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Cita has written another fascinating book about Winston Churchill. I loved her first book, Dinner with Churchill. Working with Winston gives us yet another perspective on the greatest leader and statesman of the twentieth century. Both books are well researched and well written. I met Grace Hamblin in 1987 and I learned a great deal more about her in Cita's authoritative work. It was no simple task working for Churchill. Although he was always harder on himself, he was a demanding taskmaster! Yet he earned their respect and won their love and affection for him.

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Marvelous insight into the personality of Winston Churchill.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 22, 2020

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I enjoyed the intimacy of the associations of these individuals with one of the greatest leaders in history.

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Þorsteinn Sæmundsson

Excellent book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 4, 2019

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The book gives an intimate view of Churchill and shows what a great statesman he was.

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Jill V.

Nice read:

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 12, 2020

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Never saw this side of Churchill, very interesting, also saw pictures I have never seen before. Recommend this book for those wanting a different view if The Last Lion.

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The secretaries point of view.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 5, 2019

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Wonderful book, enjoyed it very much.

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M. Schwinn

Too Much Uninteresting Detail

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 19, 2020

Two and a half stars.

All of the women (and one man) are exceptionally competent and admirable and refute the phrase “just a secretary,” but they’re interesting solely because of their proximity to Winston Churchill. Unfortunately, the most vivid memories that crop up in these oral histories concern their trips with him, impressions that have little or nothing to do with Churchill. Each person’s story is told chronologically within a chapter, but it’s not necessary to know which other secretaries are in the work rota, the prior education and experience of each secretary, or (usually) a timeline of Churchill’s life (Most anecdotes don’t tie in to a particular event or time).

There’s a sprinkling of anecdotes but more often a general impression of what working for Churchill was like, and here the author runs into two problems. First, it emerges late in the book that Churchill disliked small talk, so that even when a secretary kept him company during a solitary meal, the table was silent; moreover, he didn’t regard them as his social equals and was uninterested in anything about their lives. Considering their limited interaction with Churchill, the scarcity of anecdotes isn’t surprising.

Second, all the secretaries held the same opinion of Churchill as an employer: momentarily irascible, charmingly contrite, unexpectedly kind and considerate; they also had essentially the same daily routine. This makes for a lot of repetition as each secretary reiterates these points. The epilogue sums up their impressions and is the most valuable part of the book. The book should have been organized as it was, with, say, a chapter on the usual daily work routine, a chapter on his kindnesses, and so on. That would have resulted in a much shorter but more interesting book.

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Bruce M. Beehler

Seeing Churchill's Greatness Through the Eyes of Those Who Worked For Him

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 18, 2019

This is Cita Stelzer's second book about Winston Churchill. The first, Dinner with Churchill, showed how Churchill used the diplomacy at the dinner table to achieve policy wins for the UK. This book presents a series of detailed biographies of the (mainly women) who worked tirelessly on behalf of Churchill throughout his career. These workers became devoted to the brilliant and demanding leader, through good times and bad. The stories illuminate Churchill through the eyes of these devoted typists, short-hand-scribes, and assistants who, in some instances, traveled the world with him to keep his writing and political career afloat under the challenges of war and depression and politics. What we learn is that Churchill was a superficially stern task-master, who was, under it all, a soft-touch with a love of animals and a penchant for sentimentality. A great read that speaks of a personality that the UK and the US would dearly welcome in a position of leadership today.

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