MOVING CHURCHILL #7: Thanks For Your Thoughts
The people have spoken.
Thank you for all your thoughtful responses to our ‘What do you think?’ impending-move query. The consensus is definitely Eastside-centric but not utterly Westside-dismissive.
As for stairs?
A resounding no. If we land in a townhouse on some upper story there will have to be an elevator.
We’ll be getting back to you as our choices narrow further. For now, this was really quite clarifying.
On with our Sale books!
WINSTON CHURCHILL’S IMAGINATION
by Paul K. Alkon
Excellent exegesis on Churchill’s literary imagination and the ways in which it has fired our own.
Price: $75.00 / Sale: $30.00
THE CHURCHILLS: A FAMILY PORTRAIT
by Celia Lee and John Lee
Jennie Churchill and her impact on her two sons, especially Winston’s younger brother Jack, with new material from his family archives.
Price: $45.00/Sale: $20.00
Signed: $25.00
WINSTON CHURCHILL: STATESMAN OF THE CENTURY
by Robin H. Neillands
Eminent British historian weighs in with his own relatively brief Churchill biography.
Price: $35.00 / Sale: $15.00
CHURCHILL, ROOSEVELT & COMPANY
Studies in Character and Statecraft
by Lewis E. Lehrman
The noted American historian and teacher on Churchill’s “Special Relationship.”
Price: $29.95 / Sale: $15.00
THE WORLD CRISIS
Abridged One-Volume Paperback Reprint
by Winston S. Churchill
Price: $35.00 / Sale: $15.00
MOVING CHURCHILL
We will continue to share weekly updates.
Plus many more special sale books.
(Winston Churchill moved some 20 times in his adult life. We are also sharing each of these.
One-by-one. Just for the record.)
Move #7
LAURENCE FARM
Winston Chuchill left his Hoe Farm summer retreat in the fall of 1915 to go into the trenches in France. He arrived trailed by a gun transport filled with his luggage (far more than the allowable thirty-five pounds), his own bathtub, plus a boiler for heating his bathwater. As a major with the Grenadier Guards, he occupied trench dugouts and Ebenezer Farm, the battalion headquarters; a ruin of broken walls with a few sandbagged rooms. As a Lieutenant Colonel with the Royal Scots Fusiliers, he inhabited a variety of “squalid little French farms rising from a sea of sopping fields & muddy lanes,” as unlike Hoe Farm as night to day. Once his battalion went into the line, Churchill slept at Laurence Farm, a shell-pocked little farmhouse about five hundred yards from the trenches (that he actually liked to paint). “I have a small room to myself with a little cellar underneath,” he wrote to Clementine. “The place is however a target; & has been hit by perhaps 8 or 10 shells, while many have fallen close around.”
More to come.
With our thanks and best wishes,
Chartwell Booksellers