Churchill's Bodyguard

By Tom Hickman

Subjects: Biography, Churchill, winston, 1874-1965, Friends and associates, Relations with bodyguards, Bodyguards

Description: Walter H. Thompson was Churchill's bodyguard from 1921 until 1945, brought back from retirement at the outbreak of war. Tom Hickman's authorised biography draws heavily on extracts from a manuscript recently discovered by his great-niece, in which Thompson gives a unique insider's account of a number of occasions on which Churchill's life was put seriously at risk and his intervention was needed.