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“Hugely enjoyable and illuminating” – NEW YORK REVIEW
27th May 2016
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 describes No More Champagne as ‘hugely enjoyable and illuminating’ and ‘richly detailed and accurate’.
He writes: ‘What’s notable is that all the best recent books have dealt with specific aspects of [Churchill]. … Lough’s book completes a kind of triptych of splendid books. First came In Command of History by David Reynolds (2005) … . Then in 2012 Peter Clarke, another Cambridge historian, published Mr. Churchill’s Profession.’
Read the full review at New York Review June 2016