Long Sunset: Memoirs of Winston Churchill's Last Private Secretary

Anthony Montague Browne was a young official in the Foreign Office when in 1952 he was seconded to become Private Secretary to Sir Winston Churchill who in 1951 had returned to Downing Street for his second term as Prime Minister. Apart from a brief return to the Foreign Office after The Prime Minsterss retirement in 1955 Montague Browne remained with Churchill - as adviser amanuensis and companion - until Churchills death in January 1965. As the final member of the private staff to have written his memoirs Montague Browne adds new information about Churchills activities and attitudes when out of power most significantly during the Suez Crisis in 1956. Alonside its account of the final phase of Churchills life the book describes Britains decline in the post-war decades.