Working with Winston : the unsung women behind Britain's greatest statesman

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Label

Working with Winston : the unsung women behind Britain's greatest statesman

Title remainder

the unsung women behind Britain's greatest statesman

Statement of responsibility

Cita Stelzer ; foreword by Randolph Churchill

Creator

• Stelzer, Cita

Contributor

• Churchill, Randolph, 1965-

Author

• Stelzer, Cita

Subject

• Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 -- Employees
• Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 -- Relations with women
• Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1936-1945
• Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century -- Biography
• Biographies
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain
• Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965

Genre

• Biography
• Biographies

Language

eng

Summary

To maintain the pace at which he worked as a parliamentarian, cabinet minister, war leader, writer and painter, Churchill required a vast female staff of secretaries, typists and others. For these women Churchill was an intimidating boss; he was a man of prodigious energy, who imposed unusual and demanding schedules on those around him, and who combined a callousseeming disregard with sincere solicitude for their wellbeing. Churchill was no ordinary employer: he did not live by the clock on the office wall. He expected those who worked with and for him to live by that timetable. Despite these often unreasonable demands, Churchill inspired an enduring loyalty and affection amongst the women who worked for him. Drawing on the wealth of oral testimonies of Churchill's many secretaries held in the Churchill Archive in Cambridge, Cita Stelzer author of Dinner with Churchill brings to life the experiences of a legion of women whose stories have hitherto remained unpublished in journals and letters. In recapturing their memories of working for and with Churchill of famous people met, of travels abroad, of taking dictation in nonairconditioned aeroplanes, of working though whiskyfuelled nights she paints an original and memorable biographical portrait of one of the twentieth century's iconic statesmen

Biography type

contains biographical information

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult

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