David Lough was recently interviewed by A Blog on Winston Churchill about his excellent book No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money. In the thoroughly researched book Lough uses his background in finance to provide a ground-breaking study of Churchill’s money problems.
- How did you become interested in Winston Churchill?
I was fourteen when he died. At the time I had a brilliant history master who described Churchill to his pupils as “no more than a romantic old windbag”. I took that verdict home as my own and was shocked by my grandmother’s reaction – she was visibly, physically angry. She started my re-education by taking me to Chartwell and then she bought me copies of the official biography on their publication. She also bought me the companion volumes containing reprints of original documents – it was those that gave me my first taste for real history.
- Why did…
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