<p><b>Here are some of the best of Churchill''s letters, many of a more personal and intimate nature, presented in chronological order, with a preface to each letter explaining the context. </b><b>The recipients include a vast range of people, including his schoolmaster, his American grandmother and former President Eisenhower.</b><br><br>They are taken from within the Churchill Archive in Cambridge, where there is a mass of Churchill''s correspondence. Several of the letters included have never appeared in book form before.<br><br>Winston Churchill has become an iconic figure greatly loved the world over, but maybe especially these days in the USA. Churchill understood the power of words and he used his writing to sustain and complement his political career, publishing over 40 books and receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953.<br><br> This volume concentrates on his more intimate words. It seeks to show the private man behind the public figure and introduce fresh light on Chu
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