As Winston Churchill strode the world stage, he?required a vast staff to maintain the intense pace at which he worked, and these support staff positions were inevitably filled by women. The Prime Minister was not an easy employer, yet as Cita Stelzer reveals, these women were devoted to him, many of them later reflecting upon their time working for him as the best years of their lives. Typing skills may have been necessary, but Stelzer also points out that these assistants also attended to ultra-secret documents and decrypting enemy codes.