Churchill Wanted Dead or Alive

Sandys, Celia

ISBN 10: 0786707046 / ISBN 13: 9780786707041

Verlag: Carroll & Graf Pub, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1999

Beschreibung

233pp. B/w photos throughout. Biographical account of Churchill's time spent in South Africa during the Boer War. Clean. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 004932

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Churchill Wanted Dead or Alive

Verlag: Carroll & Graf Pub, New York, New York, U.S.A.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1999

Einband: Hard Cover

Zustand: Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine

Auflage: First Edition

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Book by Sandys Celia

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In this stirring biography of a brash, resourceful Churchill in his early twenties, Celia Sandys retraces her illustrious grandfather's path through South Africa as she reconstructs his adventures during nine months of the Anglo-Boer War at the end of the last century. She visits the campsites where the bold war correspondent and ready soldier bivouacked, the battlefields where he skirmished and fought, the site of his incarceration in Pretoria as the Boers' prisoner of war; she follows the route of his daring escape to the Mozambique border.Using both British and South African sources, which alternately reveal the young combatant as a courageous ally or formidable foe, Sandys narrates the heart-stopping exploits of a Churchill that history has largely forgotten. Yet his heroics in Africa thrust him to fame on the international stage, and within three months of his return to England, at the age of twenty-five, Churchill became a member of Parliament. Churchill Wanted Dead or Alive offers both a multifaceted portrait of the youthful adventurer who would become England's legendary prime minister and an exciting tale of the turbulent events one hundred years ago that defined South Africa for modern times.