Author: SOAMES,MARY (COPY FROM HER OWN PERSONAL LIBRARY)
Title: Family Album a Personal Selection from Four Generations of Churchills
Description: New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo - over 6 ¾" - 9¾" Tall. This is a Very Good Copy of this Book in a Very Good Dust-Jacket which has some rubbing and wear to the outer edges of the dust-jacket.Not price clipped.This copy came from the private library of Winston Churchill's Youngest Daughter Mary Soames who passed away in 2015.The book bears the bookplate of Mary Soames to the front pastedown.This copy has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.Mary Soames was Winston Churchill's last surviving daughter.She died at the age of 91 in West London.She was the youngest of the five children of our great wartime prime minister and his wife Clementine.She worked for the Red Cross and the Women's Voluntary Service from 1939 to 1941, and joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service with whom she served in London, Belgium and Germany in mixed anti-aircraft batteries, rising to the rank of Junior Commander.She also accompanied her father as aide-de-camp on several of his overseas journeys, including his trip to Potsdam, where he met with US president Harry S Truman and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.She married the Conservative politician Christopher Soames 1947 and they had five children,Nicholas, Emma, Jeremy, Charlotte and Rupert.This is a great opportunity to own a book from a distinguished family library and from the Daughter of Winston Churchill.Rare title with this wonderful association,4to with some 424 pictures First Edition 1st Impression Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Very Good .

Keywords: Winston Churchill Mary Soames Clementine Nicholas


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