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- Published: 14 November 2016
- ISBN: 9780241280980
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 400
Hero of the Empire
The Making of Winston Churchill
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- Published: 14 November 2016
- ISBN: 9780241280980
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 400
Completely engrossing
Andrew Roberts
Combining vivid narrative and original scholarship, Candice Millard reveals how Winston Churchill laid the foundations of his political career during the Boer War. Supremely courageous, flagrantly ambitious and incredibly lucky, young Winston emerges as the authentic hero of this thrilling tale of imperial derring-do
Piers Brendon, Former Keeper of the Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge
With consummate narrative skill and admirable first-hand research, Candice Millard has added to the canon of great works on Winston Churchill a book essential to a better understanding of his life and personality. Hero of The Empire is both eminently readable and exceptionally informative about the evolution of one of Britain's greatest statesmen
Phil Reed, Director of the Churchill War Rooms