Howells and his book played a minor anecdotal role in what Lady Soames used
to call "the saga," and I am not sure he sheds much significant light on
WSC. But Dr. John Mather, ("How Healthy was Churchill?"-- Google <Finest
Hour 82>, download the pdf, and see his article on page 28, says he wrote
"with care and feeling." Anthony Montague Browne and Lady Soames did not
think everything in it was entirely accurate, and as Anthony once quipped,,
"I 'eard different.'
I'm sure the book was reviewed when published, and you should look in the
archives of London newspapers, Kirkus, NYTtimes, etc. Here is my annotation
in the Zoller bibliography of works about Churchill, reproduced for books
through 1995 so far, on the Hillsdale Churchill website. The Hillsdale URL
is https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/books-about-winston-churchill/
*A260.* Howells, Roy. *Simply Churchill. *London: Robert Hale, 1965, 214
pp. *Churchill's Last Years. *New York: David McKay, 1966, 214 pp.,
reprinted.
The author served as Churchill's male nurse in his declining
years. He offers a light account, shedding little on Churchill's medical
history. The English edition is the only one with photographs; texts are
identical.
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