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Impatient Patient

Jill Rose, Nursing Churchill: Wartime Life from the Private Letters of Winston Churchill’s Nurse, Amberley Publishing, 2018, 286 pages, £18.99. ISBN 978–1445677347

The prospect of another medical history of Churchill is one we might initially approach with caution. A previous history of Churchill in this vein was said to be a compare?

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