Read The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965 Online

Authors: William Manchester,Paul Reid

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The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965 (199 page)

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Chartwell: Churchill’s sanctuary, home, and great keep.

Churchill’s study, in the oldest part of Chartwell, which dates from 1086, twenty years after the Battle of Hastings.

Churchill in his study.

The Churchill coat-of-arms, with its motto—fitting for this period of his life—“Faithful but unfortunate.”

Winston, Clementine, Diana, Randolph, and friends entertain Charlie Chaplin (
far right
) at Chartwell.

Clementine bathing in Chartwell’s swimming pool, one of Winston’s creations.

A life mask of Clementine, taken by Paul Hamann, a German artist, in the early 1930s.

Major (later Sir) Desmond Morton, a member of Churchill’s intelligence net and a Chartwell neighbor.

F. W. Lindemann, “the Prof”—later Lord Cherwell.

Brendan Bracken.

A Chartwell guest: French socialist Léon Blum, former Premier of France.

Albert Einstein (
right
), another 1930s guest, in Chartwell’s rose garden.

Jack Churchill and Clementine play bezique.

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