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  • Paperback: 178 pages
  • Publisher: iUniverse.com (17 Sep 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0595468527
  • ISBN-13: 978-0595468522
  • Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 273,619 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Elizabeth Nel served as Winston Churchill's personal secretary during World War II. The vivid and human details of her experiences, of her impressions and memories of the irascible and loveable war hero, take up the story of Churchill's life at No. 10 where the BBC's impressive drama, The Gathering Storm, leaves off-when Churchill took over the reins of Government at the outset of the war. Finally, the author, Elizabeth Nel, at 90 years of age, looks back across the years. "Mrs Nel was Mr Churchill's secretary from 1941 to 1945 and her experiences, from the first day of inevitable blunders to the wartime meetings in Canada, the United States, Moscow, Yalta and Casablanca to which she accompanied him, are told with a modest restraint."-The Times Literary Supplement "She was by his side when Germany attacked Russia; when Pearl Harbour, the fall of Tobruk and Arnhem occurred. But somehow the distant roar of guns is dimmed by the sweat of being Mr Churchill's secretary."-Daily Express "It is a personal book, but one that shows the great admiration Churchill was able to inspire in those who worked with him."-New York Herald Tribune

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4.0 out of 5 stars A fascinating account of working for Mr Churchill, 16 Nov 2007
This is a fascinating account by Mr Churchill's private secretary of working with him during World War Two. She describes in some detail the pleasures and difficulties, but it is clear from her enthusiasm and devotion that she considered it, however problematic, to be a great privilege and never too onerous.
Besides, there were splendid moments such as when she stayed in Marrakesh, close to Mr Churchill whilst he recuperated at the Villa Taylor in January 1944. She recalls that they happily found themselves in a wonderful setting looking out on the beautiful Snow Atlas Mountains, with the early morning sun rolling over the ridge through soft pink clouds; and there was a `joyful interlude' on a battleship in the Mediterranean, when `every minute of which seemed so peaceful and happy that we might not have been at war at all'.
This book can usefully be read alongside Joanna Moody's "From Churchill's War Rooms. Letters of a Secretary 1943-45" and Joan Bright Astley's "The Inner Circle - A view of war at the top" to get a more rounded picture of what it was like to be one of this close group of hard working secretarial/administrative personnel who did so much in the background, supporting the War Cabinet and the Chiefs of Staff in winning the war.
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4.0 out of 5 stars a first hand account, 17 Oct 2008
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ms nel who liveed in south africa and recently died at a very old age of over 90 see his report on her former boss being republished. and i quote we shoul go on and on like the gun horses until we drop...
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