The Churchills
In Love and War

When you pick up a book of Winston Churchill, you sort of know what you are going to get. You think you will have yet another retelling of how Winston won World War 2, after featuring in the Boer War as a correspondent and even before that in Sudan as a cavalry officer. Well, yes - you get that, but......more

This book paints an almost mind-numbing picture of the lifestyles of a parasitic class of people born either to obscene wealth or a life eased by a network of powerful connections, who spent much of their time screwing around with other people's spouses, buying and decorating expensive properties bo......more

I have read Mary S. Lovell's The Mitford Girls and enjoyed it, so was quite interested to find this in a library The tone is much the same as with the Mitford book, and it makes for easy reading. BUT!!!! I am only on page 33 and already have found 2 factual errors. Granted neither of them impede on......more

This sounds ponderous for summer reading, but it's actually really gossipy and fun. I liked it quite a bit better than the author's book on the Mitford sisters. If you've read a lot about those famous British aristocratic types who lived around time of the World Wars, then you will encounter many fa......more

Lovell tackled a giant subject here - but she did it once before (quite successfully) in The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family, and she mostly succeeds here too. She's drew from the extensive Churchill-Spencerian aquifer, effervescent with Marlboroughs and Vanderbilts and Mitfords and Guests a......more