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The Churchill Girls - The Story of Winston's Daughters (Hardcover)
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The Churchill Girls - The Story of Winston's Daughters (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R530
Discovery Miles 5 300
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Bright, attractive and well-connected, in any other family the
Churchill sisters - Diana, Sarah, Marigold and Mary - would have
shone. But they were not in any other family, they were Churchills
and neither they nor anyone else could ever forget it. From their
father - 'the greatest Englishman' - to their brother, golden boy
Randolph, to their eccentric and exciting cousins, the Mitford
Girls, they were surrounded by a clan of larger-than-life
characters which often saw them overlooked. Marigold died when she
was very young but her three sisters lived lives full of passion,
drama and tragedy ... Diana, intense and diffident; Sarah,
glamorous and stubborn; Mary, dependable yet determined - each so
different but each imbued with a sense of responsibility toward
each other and their country. Far from being cosseted debutantes,
these women were eyewitnesses at some of the most important events
in world history, including at the Second World War Conferences of
Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam. Yet The Churchill Girls is not a story
set on the battlefields or in Parliament; it is an intimate saga
that sheds light on the complex dynamics of family set against the
backdrop of the tumultuous twentieth century. Accomplished
biographer Rachel Trethewey draws on unpublished family letters
from the Churchill archives to bring Winston and Clementine's
daughters out of the shadows and tell their remarkable stories for
the first time.
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