SOURCE: “My Darling Clementine,” in Saturday Evening Post, Vol. 271, No. 6, November 1999, p. 44.

In the following review, Kreiter presents excerpts from the American edition of Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills.

She called him “my sweet Pug.” He called her “my little Clemmie Kat.” Together they shared one of the most remarkable marriages of the 20th century. Even more extraordinary was their correspondence—letters, love notes, and telegrams continuing from before their marriage in 1908 until shortly before his death in 1965. That correspondence is now an open book, thanks to Mary Soames, their daughter, who has compiled her famous parents' letters in a delightful book, Winston and Clementine: The Personal Letters of the Churchills.

“What a comfort & pleasure it was to … meet a girl with so much intellectual quality & such strong reserves of noble sentiment,” Winston wrote in his first letter to Clementine Hozier on April 16, 1908. He...