Mary Churchill's War

A daily love letter from a brave young woman to her adored father … immensely evocative of wartime Britain, extremely well edited, and occasionally powerfully moving – Andrew Roberts * TLS *
It wasn’t easy being a Churchill child - and only Mary managed it with serenity and aplomb, as her diary of wartime ATS service shows – Anne De Courcy * Sunday Telegraph *
‘Mary’s affectionately intimate and emotionally volatile diaries […] are an informal record that perfectly complements Churchill’s own six authoritative volumes of memoirs of the second world war. . .This is a happy book’ * Spectator *
A new and valuable perspective on Churchill in wartime * The Oldie *
A fascinating and intimate insight into the iconic Prime Minister’s family life * Daily Telegraph *

Emma Soames is a writer, broadcaster and columnist who has been the editor of the Literary Review, Tatler, ES Magazine, the Telegraph magazine and Saga. She is the second child of Mary and Christopher Soames and is her mother’s Literary Executor; she is the granddaughter of Winston and Clementine Churchill.

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