Mary Churchill's War: The Wartime Diaries of Churchill's Youngest Daughter Hardcover – June 7, 2022

Such a good book. It is hard for to put down. Enjoyed reading how Mary Churchill loved her parents and wanted to make them proud. Highly recommend.

The love the she had for her Father and Mother and brother and sisters and her romantic interests and social during the War. A young person view of her life at the time.

I am 2/3 of the way through and find the book to be very well edited and presented entries from Mary’s diary. I have learned a great deal. But, I find Mary vain, selfish and oblivious to how the populace was suffering. Most Brits barely got enough food to survive, everything was rationed. While she frets about her father— which any daughter would—she almost never mentions the British people, except in cliche-ridden platitudes. The privileges she had are really galling. My parents both lived through the war, my father in the Royal Navy and my mother in the RAF. The stories my mother told of them getting almost no meat or vegetables, and little else, that they could buy one coat or one dress a year, but no other clothing for the entire year. Mary flits around from club to restaurant to dinner parties, consuming all sorts a multi-course meals, with the proper wine and after dinner drinks. She complains about being fat. She buys new clothes because she’s bored.I never understood why Winston Churchill was voted out right after the war. My mother tried to explain that they were glad to have a ruthless wartime leader, but the people didn’t trust Churchill in peacetime. I didn’t understand then. Now I get it.

Gift to English woman WWII veteran. She is enjoying the book.