Nursing Churchill - Wartime Life from the Private Letters of Winston Churchill's Nurse (Rose Jill)(Paperback / softback)

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 center of Britain's war effort, and about Churchill himself. With unrivaled intimacy, her observations show a very human and seldom-seen side of the great man and include many amusing anecdotes. She describes with wry humor 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
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