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Churchill's Bodyguard

Tom Hickman
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780755314492
  • Weight: 260g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Jun 2006
  • Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Description

For fans of Darkest Hour and Dunkirk, discover the story of Walter H. Thompson, the man who saved Winston Churchill's life more than once.

Walter H. Thompson was Churchill's bodyguard from 1921 until 1945, brought back from retirement at the outbreak of war.

Tom Hickman's authorised biography draws heavily on extracts from a manuscript recently discovered by his great-niece, in which Thompson gives a unique insider's account of a number of occasions on which Churchill's life was put seriously at risk and his intervention was needed.

After the war, Thompson married one of Churchill's secretaries, and her recollections, as well as those of surviving family members, are interwoven to tell the revelatory inside story of life beside the Greatest Briton.
About Tom Hickman
Tom Hickman has worked as a journalist and editor on numerous national and specialist publications. He has written ten books including a history of the BBC during the Second World War and the very well reviewed THE CALL-UP.

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