Brendan Bracken by Charles Edward Lysaght

Description

Title: Brendan Bracken

Publisher: Allen Lane, London

Publication Date: 1979

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: As New

Edition: 1st Edition Very fine hardcover with dust jacket now protected in removable cover. Brendan Bracken is remembered as Winston Churchill’s closest friend. So obviously strong were the bonds of mutual affection which bound them together that it was rumoured that they were father and son. When Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940, Bracken, long his lone and constant supporter in the wilderness, moved in as his indispensable henchman, and later became Minister of information-Britain’s very different answer to Goebbels. History shows us that Bracken was a man to whom Churchill owed an immense debt for his political survival. Bracken was born in the North Tipperary town of Templemore. Man of Mystery, a secretive eccentric, a wonderful friend, a freak, perhaps a genius, certainly an expert in the art of make-believe and fantasy was how Randolph Churchill [who resented Bracken greatly] described him. Scarce Collector’s Item.