Sonia Purnell

Mar 5, 2025 | engelsbergideas.com | Sonia Purnell

It may no longer be unthinkable that 2025 – the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War – will be the year when the Special Relationship or even NATO take their last breath. But President Trump would surely have found it harder to break up enduring transatlantic bonds if the last of the generation that fully understood their worth had not left the stage. Without the combined voices of those who fought Hitler’s tyranny, we face an unpredictable future.

Feb 25, 2025 | libraryjournal.com | Sonia Purnell

. Sept. 2024. 16:59 hrs. ISBN 9780593912416. $95. BIOG COPY ISBN Award-winning journalist Purnell’s latest Churchill family biography (following Clementine. The Life of Mrs. Winston Churchill) about English political activist and diplomat Pamela Harriman is triumphantly delivered by narrator Louise Brealey. While Harriman has often been overlooked or dismissed as little more than a courtesan, Purnell reveals her to have been a powerful political actor.

Feb 11, 2025 | bookbrowse.com | Sonia Purnell

Write your own review! Techeditor You should know this story A Woman of No Importance is a biography of Virginia Hall, a heroic World War II spy who, again and again, was treated as unimportant because she was just a woman. Although Sonia Purnell put together honest research for this book, the story of Hall's life is almost unbelievable.

Nov 21, 2024 | zip06.com | Sonia Purnell

Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue by Sonia Purnell I cannot put this book down! It has behind-the-scenes of pivotal moments in history, seduction, glamour, tragedy, affairs galore, and ambition. Pamela Digby Churchill Harriman is an extraordinary intersection of courtesan, strategist, ambition, and purpose.

Sep 27, 2024 | airmail.news | Sonia Purnell

Kingmaker: Pamela Harriman’s Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction, and Intrigue by Sonia Purnell From Mata Hari to Lola Montez, courtesans—or grandes horizontales—have always been fascinating to read about. One wonders what makes them so irresistible? A strategic fluttering of eyelashes? A luminescent smile? Or perhaps “a voice ever soft / Gentle and low—an excellent thing in a woman,” as Shakespeare observed.