Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, A Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill
by Millard, Candice
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0385535732
- ISBN 13
- 9780385535731
- Seller
-
Georgetown, Texas, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Doubleday. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Burgundy boards with burgundy spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Map on endpapers. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 381 pages. 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 journalistcovering 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."-- .
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Storbeck's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 608651
- Title
- Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, A Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill
- Author
- Millard, Candice
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385535732
- ISBN 13
- 9780385535731
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2016
- Keywords
- BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY, POLITICAL
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography & Autobiography / Political;
Terms of Sale
Storbeck's
Storbeck's accepts payment by Mastercard, Visa, American Excpress, Discover, PayPal, check or moneyorder. 8.25% sales tax on orders shipped to Texas.
About the Seller
Storbeck's
Biblio member since 2003
Georgetown, Texas
About Storbeck's
Storbeck's has a wide selection of genealogy books, maps and supplies for the family historian or genealogist researching in the United States, Europe, Scandinavia, the British Isles and Canada.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Number Line
- A series of numbers appearing on the copyright page of a book, where the lowest number generally indicates the printing of that...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...