Hero of the empire : the making of Winston Churchill / Candice Millard.
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TextPublisher: [London] : Penquin Books, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: ix, 381 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 20 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780141984193Subject(s): Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965 -- Military leadership | South African War, 1899-1902 -- Participation, British | South African War, 1899-1902 -- Prisoners and prisons, BritishGenre/Form: Biographies. DDC classification: 968.04831092 Summary: A thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England one day, despite the fact he had just lost his first election campaign for Parliament. He believed that to achieve his goal he must do something spectacular on the battlefield. Despite deliberately putting himself in extreme danger as a British Army officer in colonial wars in India and Sudan, and as a journalist covering a Cuban uprising against the Spanish, glory and fame had eluded him. Churchill arrived in South Africa in 1899, valet and crates of vintage wine in tow, there to cover the brutal colonial war the British were fighting with Boer rebels. But just two weeks after his arrival, the soldiers he was accompanying on an armored train were ambushed, and Churchill was taken prisoner.
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Originally published: 2016.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England one day, despite the fact he had just lost his first election campaign for Parliament. He believed that to achieve his goal he must do something spectacular on the battlefield. Despite deliberately putting himself in extreme danger as a British Army officer in colonial wars in India and Sudan, and as a journalist covering a Cuban uprising against the Spanish, glory and fame had eluded him. Churchill arrived in South Africa in 1899, valet and crates of vintage wine in tow, there to cover the brutal colonial war the British were fighting with Boer rebels. But just two weeks after his arrival, the soldiers he was accompanying on an armored train were ambushed, and Churchill was taken prisoner.
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