🎉   Please check out our new website over at books-etc.com.

Seller
Your price
£18.99
Out of Stock

Nursing Churchill

Wartime Life from the Private Letters of Winston Churchill's Nurse

By (author) Jill Rose
Foreword by Emma Soames
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Amberley Publishing, Chalford, United Kingdom
Published: 15th Jun 2018
Dimensions: w 164mm h 242mm d 28mm
Weight: 555g
ISBN-10: 1445677342
ISBN-13: 9781445677347
Barcode No: 9781445677347
Trade or Institutional customer? Contact us about large order quotes.
Synopsis
A fresh perspective on Churchill and wartime life through the eyes of the nurse charged with looking after the Prime Minister. In February 1943, when the course of the Second World War hung in the balance, 68-year-old Prime Minister Winston Churchill was stricken with pneumonia. Doris Miles, from St Mary's Hospital in London, was appointed as his private nurse. During her time with Churchill, she wrote regularly to her husband, a Surgeon-Lieutenant with the Royal Navy, about life at the centre of Britain's war effort, and about Churchill himself. With unrivalled intimacy, her observations show a very human and seldom-seen side of the great man and include many amusing anecdotes. She describes with wry humour their arguments and conversations, and life at Downing Street and Chequers. She writes as well of the everyday events that carried on despite the war; weddings and parties, family and friends, births and deaths, and working life at one of London's busiest hospitals. She describes her feelings, her fears and her hopes for the future. This is a poignant and perceptive collection of previously unpublished letters that shows an ordinary person's perspective of Churchill through a crucial period of the war, as well as how the war affected those at home, unfiltered by the lens of history. It is also a love story, from a newly-wed young woman whose husband went to war. This exclusive wartime source is adroitly woven into the wider context of those turbulent times.

New & Used

Seller Information Condition Price
-New
Out of Stock

What Reviewers Are Saying

Submit your review
Newspapers & Magazines
'A very valuable and unique insight.' -- Prime Minister Boris Johnson, author of The Churchill Factor 'These letters are of genuine historical importance to anyone interested in Churchill and the Second World War. They provide a fascinating, and occasionally moving, account of wartime Britain. Supported by the fine scholarship of the author, this book reminds us of the good-nature and humanity of the Greatest Briton, even while he was under unimaginable stress and a life-threatening illness. I heartily recommend it.' -- Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny 'A top quality, outstanding read, this well written book is historically accurate and enhanced by unique photographs.' -- Professor Allister Vale, co-author of Winston Churchill's Illnesses 1886-1965 'This book provides a fascinating and intimate account of life in a leading London hospital at the height of the Second World War, including the wedding of our own parents. A thoroughly absorbing read.' -- David Suchet (actor) and John Suchet (former ITN News anchor, Classic FM presenter)