Churchill’s secretaries were shouted at, worked 20-hour days and had to take dictation up ladders
BOOK OF THE WEEK WORKING WITH WINSTON by Cita Stelzer (Head of Zeus £20, 400 pp) Fetch me klop!’ That was Winston Churchill, barking instructions to his quaking new secretary Kathleen Hill in 1937, on her first evening working for him. ‘Klop’ was Churchill’s private onomatopoeic word for his hole-puncher. But Kathleen had no idea … Read more