In February 1943, when the course of World War II hung in the balance, 68-year-old Prime Minister Winston Churchill was stricken with pneumonia. Doris Miles, from St. Mary's Hospital in London, was appointed as his private nurse. During her time with Churchill, she wrote regularly to her husband, a Surgeon-Lieutenant with the Royal Navy, about life at the center of Britain's war effort, and about Churchill himself. With unrivaled intimacy, her observations show a very human and seldom-seen side of the great man and include many amusing anecdotes. She describes with wry humor their arguments and conversations, and life at Downing Street and Chequers. This is a poignant and insightful collection of letters that shows an ordinary person's perspective of Churchill through a crucial period of the war, as well as how the war affected those at home, unfiltered by the lens of history. It is also a deeply moving love story, from a newly-wed young woman whose husband went to war.
