Letters for the Ages Winston Churchill

Author W. S. Churchill
Narrator Sean Barrett
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Run Time 6 hours and 21 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Biography and non-fiction prose, Biography: historical, political and military, Diaries, letters and journals, History, Politics and government, Second World War, Society and Social Sciences.

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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, offering the reader a sense of Churchill in his most private moments.

Critics Review

...a valuable contribution to ever-popular Churchill history… [provides] an unvarnished view of Churchill through personal correspondence between the man and family, friends, and contemporaries.
Booklist
An edifying peek at what “Winny” wrote behind the scenes…A treasure trove of Churchill’s correspondence.
Washington Independent Review of Books
A must have for the serious Churchill aficionado and anyone interested in gaining a fuller understanding of the great man.
The Churchillian
An introduction to the private and personal Churchill that often gets lost in the larger works of history and biography.
New York Journal of Books
[contains some of the] best letters from Churchill to family, friends and fellow politicians.
Seattle Book Review

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