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PUBLISHER: Valley
ISBN: 9781908853172
PAGES: 320 p.
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‘Winston and Me’ tells the story of poor Edinburgh teenager Jamie Melville and his relationship as batman and later as assistant to Winston Churchill, from the mud of Flanders to the House of Commons during the First World War.
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