Clementine Churchill

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Cassell
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1979
Edition: First Edition

Description: 556 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.The only exception is some light fading to jacket spine. It Has Been A Personally Moving Experience For Mre To Delve Back Into My Mother's Long Lifetime; And To Trace Through Her Spoken Recollections, But Above All In Their Letters To Each Other, The Record Of Her Loving And Heroic Partnership With My Father, Which Lasted Over Half A Century.

Publishers Description: Clementine, Lady Spencer-Churchill died in 1979, aged 92. Instantly recognizable as the seemingly serene, cool and derached wife of Winston Churchill she had nonetheless shunned publicity throughout her life. In this biography her daughter, Mary Soames, throws light on her mother, writing of Clementines 57-year marriage to Winston, her strongly held political views and a life which spans many of the major events of the 20th century. Clementine Churchill was the perfect wife for Winston. For 75 years she supported him through the triumphs, disasters and tensions which ruled his public and private life. As a young girl she had a strength of character and distinction of mind, allied to outstanding good looks, that attracted the young and impetuous Winston Churchill. The early years of her marriage coincided with the heyday of the reforming Liberal Government, in which Winston was a leading she was later to describe them as the happiest of her life. Always Winston trusted her completely and she became a valuable counsellor and companion. Clementine was shy, passionate and highly strung, and her self-control was tested to its utmost in the turmoil of public life and in the no less harrowing family crises and the ever-present financial anxieties. But one facet of her life was the love she shared with her husband, which was to sustain them both even through the most trying times.

ISBN: 0304303216