Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill
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| Rating | : | 4.15 (886 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B06ZYBDMKN |
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| Number of Pages | : | 284 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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From the New York Times best-selling author Candice Millard, this is the gripping true story of one dramatic - and emblematic - year in the early life of Winston Churchill. Candice Millard tells a magnificent story of bravery, savagery and chance encounters with a cast of historical characters - including Rudyard Kipling, Lord Kitchener and Gandhi - with whom he would later share the world stage and gives us an unexpected perspective on one of the iconic figures in our history.. Churchill arrived in South Africa in 1899 to write about the brutal colonial war against
"Toujours l'Audace!" Not always a good idea, but for Churchill a great motto for life! Richard S. Dixon Jr. Although I have never been a big fan of Winston Churchill (I remember watching his funeral when I was a young boy), I have always been fascinated by the famous photograph of Churchill in a POW line-up in Pretoria in 1899. When I worked in Pretoria in the 1980s, my route into town always stopped at the intersection of Skinner and van der Walt streets and the Staatsmodel School where Churchill was held stared back at me like a historical ghost amid the modern buildings and traffic of apartheid South Africa. So, w. MaryG said Unusual and recommended. I heard Candice Millard being interviewed on NPR and was so interested that I bought her book. I wasn't disappointed. Hero of the Empire is an easy read—that is, it held my attention throughout. But the surprise for me was learning about this conflict with the Boers. I knew virtually nothing about them or their history. Nor did I know anything about this period in Churchill's life. The author has done a remarkable job of presenting Churchill in the making, warts and all, and for this reason I bought the b. Another biography told like a thrilling adventure! AnaBH My husband and I loved her other two books, The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey and Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, so it was with anticipation that I opened this one. True to form, the author grabbed me from the first paragraph in the prologue, making me forget about the world around me or the affairs of the day. I was there, in South Africa, and a war I had never studied, with all of the implications of the British Empire's magnitude, be