<p>Inside British politics and upper class social life in the decade before the first world war-by the daughter of the Prime Minister and Liberal leader,H H Asquith. Hitherto and revealing unpublished letters and diaries of a Prime Minister's influential daughter.</p>

Lantern Slides: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter 1904-1914

Biographies & Memoirs

Bonham Carter, Violet

Community & Culture

Weidenfeld Nicolson Ltd

Lady Violet Bonham Carter, daughter of the Liberal prime minister H. H. Asquith, and herself a leading Liberal, was described by Winston Churchill in 1951 as 'one of the very best speakers, male or female'. She was also a writer of distinction, Clement Attlee praising her 1965 biography of Churchill: 'Amazing that her first book, at 78, should be so good.' Its intended sequel was never written, but here, is the raw material for a worthy successor.'Winston has many faults but he is the one great forest tree that still stands’ she wrote in 1950. ‘When I am with him I feel the perspective of history'. That 'perspective' is vividly captured here and a galaxy of political stars comes into view - Attlee 'feeling the Atlas weight of his responsibility' as prime minister; Anthony Eden, 'accomplishing his own destruction by the suicidal blunder of Suez'; Harold Macmillan, 'How little I dreamed that he would ever blossom into "Super-Mac"'; President Kennedy, 'Above all I had the sense of greatness - in a greater degree than I have felt it about anyone since I first met Winston at the age of 19'. These are also the writings of an active politician with an international standing – an ardent campaigner for a United Europe: 'If we fail one realises suddenly that one is looking on at the suicide of a civilisation'; above all, a passionate Liberal struggling to save her party from extinction, and contemplating a deal with the Conservatives: 'But can one buy survival with dishonour?'

Daring to Hope: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter, 1946-1969

Orion Pub Co

<p>This superb account of the public and private life of the greatest Englishman of our century makes a rare firsthand contribution to the history of an epoch and to the understanding of a man. Violet Bonham Carter was Churchill's close personal friend for nearly sixty years. Her book focuses on the formative and crucial years from 1906 to 1916 that shaped his political style as well as his philosophy; it contains a vast amount of new material that has never been previously published.</p>

Winston Churchill: An Intimate Portrait

Smithmark Pub.

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Lantern Slides: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter 1904-1914

Daring to Hope: The Diaries and Letters of Violet Bonham Carter, 1946-1969

Winston Churchill: An Intimate Portrait