Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in its Finest, Darkest Hour by Lynne Olson

Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in its Finest, Darkest Hour by Lynne Olson

Author Lynne Olson details the story of how the U.S.'s "special relationship" with Britain came to be, told from the perspective of three American men who featured prominently in Britain during World War II: Edward R. Murrow, the head of CBS in Europe; Averell Harriman, who ran FDR's Lend-Lease program from its London base; and John Gilbert Winant, the U.S. ambassador to Britain.   

496 pages.

The Titled Americans by Elisabeth Kehoe

The Titled Americans by Elisabeth Kehoe

The Titled Americans offers a glimpse into the lives of three privileged and glamorous sisters who married into the British aristocracy. When Leonard Jerome arrived in New York in 1850, he would go on to become a successful Wall Street speculator, whose fortunes rose and fell throughout his life. When his wife, Clarissa, took their three daughters, Jennie, Clara, and Leonie, to Europe in the 1860s, the girls would make quite a splash within the British upper class. Jennie married Lord Randolph Churchill, becoming the mother of Winston and the most famous of the three Jerome daughters. Jennie's marriage would launch her sisters into the highest circles of society, resulting in marriages for both. Titles do not guarantee happiness, however, but deep affection united the Jerome sisters so that they could weather life's sorrows and joys, in a bond only broken in death.

452 pages.