Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
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From New York Times bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic
and The River of Doubt, 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. Remarkably, he
pulled off a daring escape--but then had to traverse hundreds of
miles of enemy territory, alone, with nothing but a crumpled wad of
cash, four slabs of chocolate, and his wits to guide him. The story
of his escape is incredible enough, but then Churchill enlisted,
returned to South Africa, fought in several battles, and ultimately
liberated the men with whom he had been imprisoned. Churchill would
later remark that this period, could I have seen my future, was to
lay the foundations of my later life. Millard spins an epic story
of bravery, savagery, and chance encounters with a cast of
historical characters--including Rudyard Kipling, Lord Kitchener,
and Mohandas Gandhi--with whom he would later share the world
stage. But Hero of the Empire is more than an adventure story, for
the lessons Churchill took from the Boer War would profoundly
affect 20th century history. From the Hardcover edition.
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