Scandalous Book of the Month: The Churchills in Love and War
Title: THE CHURCHILLS IN LOVE AND WAR Author: Mary S. Lovell Hardcover: 624 pages Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1St Edition edition Pub Date: May 9, 2011 Description : Of all Britain’s great families perhaps none has been so overshadowed by the force of one member’s personality as the Churchills. And yet in this vivid and brilliant tale of the dynasty – of which Gladstone remarked, ‘There never was a Churchill from John of Marlborough down who had either morals or principles’– theirs turns out to be a narrative of epic breadth and drama. From the First Duke of Marlborough – soldier of genius, restless empire-builder and cuckolder of Charles II – onwards, the Churchills have been politicians, gamblers and profligates, heroes and womanisers. The family continued to flourish in the nineteenth and twentieth-century, achieving power and influence in both Britain and America, helped by marriages to the ravishing and wealthy New York society beauties J...