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    Mary Churchill's Diaries

    Nov 01, 2021 3 minutes
    Review by W. Mark Hamilton

    Emma Soames has revealed yet another facet of the life and family of Winston Churchill through the diaries of her mother Mary, Churchill’s youngest daughter, who died in 2014 at age 91. Mary was just seventeen in 1939 when this diary selection begins. The book continues through the end of the Second World War in 1945, and most of the content has never been published. The diary entries are animated by the energy and interests of Mary and the values of her generation.

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