Gosh ... I just spent most of the ball game on one of my take-no-prisoner reviews on your latest chapter.
When I write of Churchill, I should add that he knew how to modulate between his stately form and a more direct style. In the Preamble to The Last Lion (Vol. I), Wm. Manchester likens Churchill's style for speeches to an organ performance. The reference is to the Late Romantic style, especially of Cesar Frank or Camille Saint-Saens. See (hear) Frank's Chorale Nr. 2 in b-minor.
What to review, after you've recovered from my cluster-bombing? Hmm. There's a sequence from Chapters 23 to 43, with a couple of interruptions. You miss the opening, and I'm changing Momma's name spelling from Mellaen to Melayne (to get more space from her daughter's name). No reason not to do the first three chapters if you care to get the start. For a standalone -- 66, 67, 81, 87. Not all of these are in the main sequence of Book 1.
If you do a sixth of that, I'll owe you bigtime.