Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874-1900 (Volume I) (Churchill

Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874-1900 (Volume I) (Churchill Biography)

â€œA milestone, a monument, a magisterial achievementâ€¦ rightly regarded as the most comprehensive life ever written of any age.â€
â€”Andrew Roberts, historian and author of The Storm of War

â€œThe most scholarly study of Churchill in war and peace ever written.â€
â€”Herbert Mitgang, The New York Times

In the official biography of Sir Winston Churchill, of which this is the first of eight volumes, Randolph Churchillâ€”and later Sir Martin Gilbert, who took up the work following Randolphâ€™s death in 1968â€”had the full use of Sir Winstonâ€™s letters and papers, and also carried out research in many hundreds of private archives and public collections. The form in which the work is cast is summed up in the phrase that Randolph quotes from Lockhart: â€œHe shall be his own biographer.â€ The subject is presented, as far as possible, through his own words, though never neglecting the words of his contemporaries, both friends and critics.

Volume I, first published in 1966, covers the years from Churchillâ€™s birth in 1874 to his return to England from an American lecture tour, on the day of Queen Victoriaâ€™s funeral in 1900, in order to embark on his political career. In the opening pages, the account of his birth is presented through letters of his family. The subject comes on the scene with his own words in a letter to his mother, written when he was seven. His later letters, as a child, as a schoolboy at Harrow, as a cadet at Sandhurst, and as a subaltern in India, show the development of his mind and character, his ambition and awakening interests, which were to merge into a genius of our age.

The narrative surrounding these letters presents facts relevant to Sir Winston and other personalities discussed, and fills in the historical background of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Here is all the excitement of the beginning of the extraordinary career of the greatest statesman of the twentieth century.

About the Author

RANDOLPH S. CHURCHILL, the only son of Winston Churchill, was born on 28 May 1911. Educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he became a widely-read journalist in the 1930s, reporting first-hand on the German elections of 1932 and warning of Hitlerâ€™s military ambitions. In the Second World War he served as an intelligence officer at General Headquarters, Middle East, and in the Special Forces in the Western Desert. In 1944 he volunteered to parachute behind enemy lines to serve as a liaison officer with the Yugoslav partisans. For his war services he was awarded the MBE (Military).

Between 1938 and 1961 he edited six volumes of his fatherâ€™s speeches. His own books include The Rise and Fall of Sir Anthony Eden; The Six Day War, a history of the six-day Arab-Israeli war of 1967, written with his son, Winston; and the first two main and five document volumes of the biography of his father: Youth, 1874â€“1900 and Young Statesman, 1901â€“1914. An Honorary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge, Randolph Churchill died at his home, Stour, East Bergholt, Suffolk, on 6 June 1968.

About the Work

In the official biography of Sir Winston Churchill, his son Randolphâ€”and later Sir Martin Gilbert, who took up the work following Randolphâ€™s deathâ€”had the full use of Sir Winstonâ€™s letters and papers, and also many hundreds of private archives. The work spans eight volumes, detailing Churchillâ€™s youth and early adventures in South Africa and India, his early career, and his more than fifty years on the world stage. No other statesman of modern timesâ€”or indeed of any ageâ€”has left such a wealth of personal letters, such a rich store of private and public documentation, such vivid memories in the minds of those who worked closest to him. Through these materials, assembled over the course of more than twenty years, one is able to know Churchill in a way never before possible.

Country	USA
Author	Randolph S. Churchill
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9780795344466
Format	Kindle eBook
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Label	RosettaBooks
Manufacturer	RosettaBooks
NumberOfPages	586
PublicationDate	2015-04-05
Publisher	RosettaBooks
ReleaseDate	2015-04-05
Studio	RosettaBooks

Winston S. Churchill: Youth, 1874-1900 (Volume I) (Churchill Biography)

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