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“Look At The Londoner!”
If he had not been so impatient, Winston Churchill would have been a Londoner born and bred. Lord and Lady Randolph Churchill resided at 48 Charles Street in Mayfair. It was there that their first child was to have been born. Anxious, however, to get
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Epistolary Profile
With this new and noteworthy selection of letters, editors James Drake and Allen Packwood have made a unique contribution to the vast existing literature about Winston Churchill. Many of the letters appear in book form for the first time, including s
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Action This Day
Churchill was in love in early October 1898 when he returned to England for two months’ leave. His preoccupation was Pamela Plowden, to whom even his wife Clementine always referred as “your Pamela.” He also began to write The River War, a two-volume

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