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Letters for the Ages Winston Churchill
The Private and Personal Letters
Series: Letters for the Ages
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Arranged chronologically and enriched with contextual prefaces, facsimiles, and photographs, the letters offer a vivid journey through Churchill's passions, challenges, and relationships with family and world leaders.
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See moreA specially curated selection of Churchill's key correspondence, designed to take you behind the scenes of great events, and inviting you to walk in Churchill's footsteps.
A specially curated selection of Churchill’s key correspondence, designed to take you behind the scenes of great events, and inviting you to walk in Churchill’s footsteps.
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Here are some of the best of Churchill’s letters, many of a more personal nature, written to a wide range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President Eisenhower.
Letters for the Ages concentrates on the more intimate words of Winston Churchill, seeking to show the private man behind the public figure and shine fresh light on Churchill’s character and personality by capturing the drama, immediacy, storms, depressions, passions and challenges of his extraordinary career. These letters take us into his world and allow us to follow the changes in his motivations and beliefs as he navigates his 90 years. There are intimate letters to his parents, his teacher at Harrow, his wife Clementine, Prime Minister Asquith, Anthony Eden, President Roosevelt, Eamon De Valera and Charles De Gaulle.
The letters are presented in chronological order, with a preface to each explaining the context, and they are accompanied throughout by facsimiles of said letters and photographs, offering the reader a sense of Churchill in his most private moments.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781399408172
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 25 May 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Continuum
Illustration: Black and white facsimiles of original letters throughout the book.
Contributors:
- Edited by Dr. Allen Packwood
- Edited by James Drake
- Foreword by Michael Dobbs
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Sir Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on two occasions, from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Celebrated as one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century, he was also a gifted orator, statesman and historian. The author of more than 40 books, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953 and in 1963 was made an honorary citizen of the United States.
Allen Packwood is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge and the Director of the Churchill Archives Centre. He has co-curated exhibitions at the Library of Congress and the Morgan Library and has written extensively on the life of Winston Churchill.
James Drake is a serial entrepreneur, philanthropist, and Founder at Of Lost Time, an innovative literary unit which uncovers the hidden stories of the past through the power of personal correspondence. When James is not trawling through historical letters, he is seeking to improve the health and welfare of people impacted by head injuries through his Drake Foundation, and supporting the next generation of exceptional musicians through his Drake Calleja Trust.
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