In February 1943, 68-year-old Prime Minister Winston Churchill was stricken with pneumonia. Doris Miles was appointed as his private nurse. During her time with Churchill, she wrote regularly to her husband, a Surgeon-Lieutenant with the Royal Navy, about life at the center of Britain's war effort, and about Churchill himself. With unrivaled intimacy, her observations show a very human and seldom-seen side of the great man. She describes with wry humor their arguments and conversations, and life at Downing Street and Chequers. This is a poignant and perceptive collection of previously unpublished letters that shows an ordinary person's perspective of Churchill through a crucial period of the war, as well as how the war affected those at home, unfiltered by the lens of history.