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  • Finest Hour

    Complete Picture

    May 03, 2021 2 minutes
    Review by Andrew Roberts

    Celia and John Lee, through their friendship with the late Peregrine and Yvonne Spencer Churchill, have had unrivalled first access to the private papers of Peregrine’s father, Major John Strange Spencer Churchill, Winston’s younger brother “Jack.” There they discovered several hundred family letters that point towards a new understanding of the Churchill family dynamic. Besides the hundreds of letters between Jennie Churchill and her

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