"Churchill: Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran: The Struggle for Survival, 1940 - 1965" by Lord Moran

Full title: Churchill: Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran: The Struggle for Survival, 1940 - 1965 by Lord Moran. Published in Boston by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1966. Book-of-the-Month Club Selection. 849 pages, with appendices and index.

Lord Moran’s account of Winston Churchill from 1940 through 1965, drawn from the diaries he kept while serving as Churchill’s physician.

The book begins in 1940, during Churchill’s first months as Prime Minister, and follows him through the Second World War, his fall from power, his return to office, his later years, and his death. Moran records Churchill’s work habits, health, moods, private conversations, and relationships with major wartime and postwar figures.

The contents include sections on Churchill during the war, his dealings with Roosevelt and Stalin, the strain of wartime leadership, his defeat in 1945, his return to No. 10, the Suez period, and his final years.

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