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No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money

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No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money

By: David Lough
Narrated by: Richard Burnip
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Bloomsbury presents No More Champagne by David Laugh, read by Richard Burnip.

The untold story of Winston Churchill's precarious finances – and the most original and surprising book about Churchill to emerge for many years.

The popular image of Churchill – grandson of a duke, drinking champagne and smoking a cigar – conjures up a man of wealth and substance. The reality is that Britain's most celebrated 20th-century statesman lived for most of his life on a financial cliff-edge. Only fragments of information about his finances, or their impact on his public life, have previously emerged.

With the help of unprecedented access to Churchill's private records, David Lough creates the first fully researched narrative of Churchill's private finances and business affairs. As he reveals the scale of Churchill's financial risk-taking, combined with an ability to talk or write himself out of the tightest of corners, the links between the private man and public figure become clear.©2026 David Lough (P)2026 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Politicians Politics & Activism Presidents & Heads of State Winston Churchill Royalty Taxation Money Tobacco

Critic reviews

Astonishing revelations... Churchill as financial risk-taker, spend-thrift, debtor, reckless gambler. This book makes you wholly rethink the perceived wisdom about the icon' (William Boyd, The Guardian)
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