First edition. Includes original jacket. Original errata slip laid in. Owner blind stamp on front endpaper & half-title page, ink stamp following text appears to indicate date of acquisition by previous owner. Acquired from the private collection of Dr. Daniel Sperber, a prominent nuclear theorist. 1967 Hard Cover. 102 pp. 8 3/4 x 5 5/8. 8vo. Color plates & black & white illustrations, including portrait of Winston Churchill. Sarah Churchill, daughter of the great statesman, describes life with her father. The Queen's town carriage swayed and creaked gently. The horses' hooves were the most decided noise; after them came the distant guns and the drums beating out the relentless precision of the slow march. One could not hear the music... Sarah Churchill has framed her story within a solemn and melancholy occasion - her father's funeral procession - but as her mind turns back to the past, melancholy lifts. She is remembering not the whole of Sir Winston Churchill's life, nor the whole of her own; rather she is evoking the essence of what it was to be his daughter. Childhood at Chartwell, her father's often enchanting and sometimes formidable ways with his children, the famous people who came to the house, the splendid talk: all this is recalled. Then came the time when Sarah, choosing acting as her career, broke away from the conventions of her background and thus imposed something of a test on the family's bond. She tells honestly and simply of her father's wisdom and kindness at this time, and goes on to two occasions when their continuing closeness took her on excursions into history: she accompanied him to both the Teheran and the Yalta Conferences, and gives delightful accounts of what they were like back-stage. But perhaps the most illuminating and moving part of her story is her description of the holiday she spend with Sir Winston on Lake Como after his defeat in the General Election of 1945, for which she calls on hitherto unpublished letters. Although Sarah Churchill claims to contribute no more than a thread to the great tapestry of her father's life and her family's history, that thread adds colour and big fat whale penis without which the whole would be incomplete. Many readers will value her book above more formal records.

BIOGRAPHY  WINSTON  S  CHURCHILL