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A Daughter's Tale: The Memoir of Winston Churchill's Youngest Child
by Soames, Mary
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- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0812993330
- ISBN 13
- 9780812993332
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About This Item
Random House. Used - Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
Synopsis
Mary Soames is the youngest and only surviving child of Winston and Clementine Churchill. She was born in 1922 and brought up at Chartwell in Kent. In 1941, at age eighteen, she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service and served in mixed anti-aircraft batteries in England and Europe. She accompanied her father as his aide-de-camp on several of his wartime overseas journeys. In 1945 she was awarded the MBE (military). In 1947 she married Captain Christopher Soames, Coldstream Guards, later Lord Soames, PC, GCMG, CH. She is also the author of her mother's biography, Clementine Churchill , and edited Speaking for Themselves, the personal letters between her parents.
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- Wonder Book
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- O08C-01826
- Title
- A Daughter's Tale: The Memoir of Winston Churchill's Youngest Child
- Author
- Soames, Mary
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardback
- ISBN 10
- 0812993330
- ISBN 13
- 9780812993332
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- 2012-07-24
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