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“Deftly researched … Truly fascinating” – Churchillbooks.com
Barry Singer, proprietor of the world’s only bookstore specialising in books by and about Winston Churchill describes David Lough’s No More Champagne: Churchill and His a Money as “a deftly researched, encyclopaedic chronicle of Churchill’s lifelong struggles with solvency. Truly fascinating.”
READ MORE“David Lough more than justifies his audit” – THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
The Daily Telegraph 7 November 2015 Culture Books Reviews What to read Non fiction The truth behind Churchill’s debts and reckless gambling Nicholas Shakespeare 7 NOVEMBER 2015 • 12:00PM On his first day at school, Winston Churchill asked his mother for more cash. She groused: “You do get through it in the most rapid […]
READ MORE‘Churchill’s greatest battle: staying solvent’: THE TIMES
The Times reviewed No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money in its edition of 19 September 2015. Lawrence James writes: ‘David Lough, an Oxford historian now in the world of finance, has charted the little known and sometimes heroic saga of the Churchills’ struggle to achieve liquidity. he is a courteous guide, whose knowledge of […]
READ MORE‘Absorbing…valuable insights’: FINANCIAL TIMES
FT Weekend reviewed No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money in its edition of 18 October 2015, under the headline Blood, toil tears and debt The FT’s reviewer comments: ‘Previous reviewers have noted the poor finances of Churchill’s household. Probably noe, though, has examined every available bank account and merchant’s invoice with singular, forensic purpose […]
READ MORE‘Excellent and entertaining’: PROSPECT magazine
PROSPECT magazine’s reviewer Vicky Price calls No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money ‘an excellent and entertaining work’ in her review published int he magazine’s November 2015 edition. http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/book-review-no-more-champagne-by-david-lough
READ MORE“Brilliantly illuminates one of the few unexplored aspects of Winston Churchill’s life”: Piers Brendon
Piers Brendon, author of biographies on Winston Churchill and Dwight Eisenhower, writes of No More Champagne: Churchill and his Money: “This book brilliantly illuminates one of the few unexplored aspects of Winston Churchill’s life – his private finances. Based on a wealth of fresh documentary evidence, it also reveals much about his larger-than-life character. In […]
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