Churchill: Taken from the Diaries of Lord Moran. by Moran, Lord [Sir Charles Wilson] - 1966.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin, 1966.. 1st American Edition, 1st Printing.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: turquoise cloth with burgundy and gilt; a Near Fine book, with a Very Good+ dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact.. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall) . Appendices, index. Description: Dust jacket design by Samuel H Bryant. Includes two sections of black and white photo plates. Lord Moran was Churchill's personal physician for twenty-five years. After their first meeting in the spring of 1940 Sir Charles was to remark, ''I do not like the job, and I do not think the arrangement can last.'' He was to be with Churchill, as physician and close friend all through the war years, and on to the end of his life. The publisher's blurb concludes: ''This is an almost miraculous book. To have seen a man for twenty-five years in illness and in strength, in the midst of ceremonious splendor and lying naked on his bed, to have heard the fretful complaints of a man who was nervous as well as steadfast, to have known the years of glory and the years of pitiable struggle, to have experienced all of it and to be able to write of it in serenity, with frankness, and eloquence -- that is the wonder.''