Description: Please read item descriptionA DAUGHTER’S TALEThe Memoir of Winston and Clementine Churchill’s Youngest Child(MARY SOAMES)Published in her eighty-ninth year (2 years before her death in 2014), Mary Soames was the only surviving child of Winston and Clementine Churchill. Younger than her siblings by several years, she went to day school and enjoyed an idyllic childhood played out in her very own 'Garden of Eden' – Chartwell. Here she roamed house and grounds, tended diligently to her collection of pets, and had her first glimpses of the glittering social world in which her parents moved. Then, in 1939, Chamberlain's declaration of war dramatically ended this world as she and her family had known it.Hereafter we follow Mary's life through her fascinating personal diary, published here for the first time. Through the immediacy of her private observations, we are drawn into a world where the ordinary minutiae of a packed family, social and romantic life proceed against a background of cataclysmic events. Joining the ATS and serving in mixed anti-aircraft batteries, Mary takes on her own set of professional demands while sharing the many anxieties and stresses brought to bear upon her family through her father's position.The mutual love and affection between Mary and her parents is evident on every page, from her earliest years at Chartwell to Winston's defeat at the 1945 general election, when Mary recounts her own pain and devastation on her father's behalf. At this point she meets her future husband, Christopher Soames. We are left in no doubt at the end of this charming and revealing memoir that, at twenty-four, Mary has lived a full life and is well prepared for her future as young wife and mother.Non-UK buyers please note this book will be posted through eBay's Global Shipping Programme and will, therefore, unable to be combined with other purchases. This 2011 1st edition hardback publication is in very good overall condition. The pages are tightly bound and are free from tears, creases, and significant marks. The dustjacket displays only light rubbing and minor knocks to the edges and corners (see photograph). The book runs to 402 pages (23.5cm x 14.5cm) is well indexed and has an additional 32 pages of photographs.
Price: 9.75 GBP
Location: Malton, North Yorkshire
End Time: 2025-01-10T11:31:01.000Z
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Type: Books
Conflict: World War II (1939-1945)
Era: 1914-1945
Country/ Organization: Great Britain
Theme: Militaria
Service: Home Front/ Civil Defence
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
