…War II, with his time as Prime Minister waning, Churchill drew his Private Secretary, John Colville, a flower. The memorandum, written in ink, all in Colville’s hand, is on “Prime…
Typed letter on embossed ”Ministry of Information” letterhead, to “J.R. Colville, Esq.” from Samuel Hood, Secretary to the Minister of Information, Duff Cooper, dated “9th October, 1940:” Dear Jock [in…
…John Colville and Churchill’s son-in-law, Christopher Soames, who managed matters, as Colville noted in his diary, “careful not to allow our own judgments to be given Prime Ministerial effect.” This…
…Sir John Colville (1915-1987), Winston Churchill’s Principal Private Secretary during the war, and after, right through Churchill’s second stint as Prime Minister. No one was closer to Churchill at work…
Twelve of the Kemper lectures delivered annually at the Churchill Memorial in Fulton, Missouri. Contributors include Sir Martin Gilbert, Robert Rhodes James, Lady Soames, John Colville and Lord Amery. This…
The superbly written diaries kept by Churchill’s best-known wartime private secretary (and after). A penetrating and vitally important primary source work. This is a very good copy of the First…