Winstone and Clementine Churchill wrote to each other constantly throughout the fifty-seven years of their life together , and this comprehensive collection of personal correspondence has been authoritatively edited by their daughter Mary Soames. Spontaneous and unselfconscious, the letters serve not only as a revealing portrait of their characters but as a unique political and social history.
Arctic explorer, survival expert and naturalist Freddy Spencer Chapman was trapped behind enemy lines when the Japanese overran Malaya in 1942. His response was to begin a commando campaign of such lethal effectiveness that the Japanese deployed an entire regiment against him, hunting for him as they did for no other. He was wounded, and racked by tropical disease. His companions were killed, or captured...