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5* ‘Fascinating correspondence’: DAILY TELEGRAPH on Darling Winston
‘This fascinating correspondence’ – Anne de Courcy reviews Darling Winston in the Daily Telegraph David Lough’s masterly 2015 study of Winston Churchill’s income and expenditure, No More Champagne, could be described as a financial thriller. Our hero’s pecuniary vicissitudes would turn another man’s hair white – piles of unpaid bills, looming tax demands, bridging loans, overdraft limits […]
READ MORE‘An understated triumph of the biographer’s art’: CHRONICLES
Chronicles hails No More Champagne ‘An understated triumph of the biographer’s art’ Novelist Derek Turner’s review in June 2017 issue Chronicles, the ‘magazine of American culture’ published by the Rockford Institute, forecasts that No More Champagne will ‘ensconce’ itself ‘in the extensive Churchillian historiography’ as a ‘go-to texts for future enquirers’. Reviewer Derek Turner writes: ‘Lough draws out subtle […]
READ MORE‘Brilliant and compelling study’ HISTORY TODAY November 2016
To read the full review of No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money in the November 2016 issue of History Today, see it here in PDF format: history-today-review-nov-2016
READ MORE‘Narrates with the verve of a prize fight: CLAREMONT
The Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2016 edition Read the full review of No More Champagne in The Claremont Review of Books ‘s Spring 2016 edition, written by Keith Whitaker. ClaremontReviewOfBooks_Spring16 copy
READ MORE‘A must-read’: INTELLIGENCER
The Intelligencer (Journal of U.S. Intelligence Studies) labels No More Champagne a ‘must-read’ Read the full text of the The Intelligencer’s review here: Intelligencer Journal of US Intelligence Studies June 2016
READ MORE“Hugely enjoyable and illuminating” – NEW YORK REVIEW
Geoffrey Wheatcroft reviews David Lough’s No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money June 2016 edition of The New York Review June’s edition of The New York Review carries a long essay Churchill: Great and Mean in which Geoffrey Wheatcroft discusses both David Lough’s No More Champagne and Sonia Purnell’s The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill. Wheatcroft […]
READ MORE‘One of the most compelling history books ever written’: THIRD AGE MATTERS
Editor Francis Beckett of Third Age Matters describes No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money as ‘one of the most compelling history books ever written’ in his review which appears in the magazine’s Spring 2016 edition. Beckett writes: ‘Winston Churchill’s wartime premiership, which made him the twentieth century’s towering political figure, has left a faint aura […]
READ MORE‘A fresh and fascinating study’ – SPEAR’S MAGAZINE
Spear’s Magazine, a publication widely read in the wealth management industry, calls No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money ‘fresh and fascinating’: ‘Churchill has hardly been deprived of biographical attention, but Lough, a former private banker, has produced a fascinating and fresh study of the man, of whom he says he has ‘never encountered risk-taking on […]
READ MORE‘Magnificently researched new book’ – NPR THE SALT
NPR blog The Salt calls No More Champagne a ‘magnificently researched new book’ on Winston Churchill, as seen through the prism of his chaotic personal finances. The Salt calls author David Lough a ‘skilled financial gumshoe’, a term he had to look up in the Anglo-Americasn dictionary. It seems it’s informal American slang term for a […]
READ MORE‘Reads as effortlessly as a novel… may become a classic’ – THE NEW CRITERION
New Criterion predicts No More Champagne to become a classic American magazine The New Criterion has hailed David Lough’s No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money as a potential ‘classic’ that ‘will transform the way in which Churchill is interpreted and understood’. The reviewer, the well-known monetary economist and writer Professor Timothy Congdon, writes: ‘Lough […]
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