Finest Hour

Man at Arms

Edmund Murray is best known as Winston Churchill’s last bodyguard, serving from 1950 until the death of his illustrious charge in 1965. He published his memoirs of that period, , in 1987. (The paperback edition is simply called .) David Freeman, editor of , recalled to me in an email: “Murray was

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