Volume 13, Number 1 · July 10, 1969
End of the Line
By Noel Annan
Action This Day: Working With Churchill
Memoirs by Lord Normanbrook and Others, edited and with an Introduction by Sir John Wheeler-Bennet
St. Martin's, 272 pp., $5.95
Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill
by Ralph Martin
Prentice-Hall, 404 pp., $8.95
Churchill Revised: A Critical Assessment
by A.J.P. Taylor. and, Others
Dial Press, 274 pp., $5.95
Churchill as Historian
by Maurice Ashley
Scribner's, 246 pp., $6.95
Churchill in His Time (to be published on October 24 by Houghton Mifflin as Churchill in Power: As Seen by His Contemporaries)
by Brian Gardner
Methuen, 355 pp., 50 shillings
Books about Churchill continue to lollop out of the publishing houses. Sometimes they are reminiscences, sometimes family studies, sometimes assessments of him as statesman, strategist, historian—we shall soon probably have an assessment of him as a painter. By far the most agreeable reminiscence in Action This Day is by his private secretary Jock Colville, who has a lively sense of comedy. His description of Churchill adding every few months to his set of gadgets and working in bed with sponges attached to his elbows makes one realize that the great man had a touch of eccentricity that one associates with that bizarre Victorian philosopher, Herbert Spencer.
Review, 4037 words
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