Churchill arrived in South Africa in 1899, valet and crates of vintage wine in tow. The Boers were disciplined fighters of Dutch descent their fierceness and knowledge of their South African terrain gave the infinitely larger British military fits. THE BOER WAR, A DARING ESCAPE AND THE MAKING OF WINSTON CHURCHILL. Cockran, who attended his New York lecture, was later criticized for changing his view on the war, which was untrue. While Hero of the Empire zeroes in on Churchill,the book also provides a wider view of the Boer War. In 1900, Churchill began his North American lecture tour on his Boer War experiences. He had a taste for the finer things, but he also proved to be a resilient survivor. Ever the aristocrat - his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, was a British statesman -Churchill traveled with fine wine and gourmet snacks and arranged a regular visit from a barber while he was in prison.
As he told his younger brother, Jack, "There is no ambition I cherish so keenly as to gain a reputation for personal courage." As Millard writes, "He wanted not simply to fight but to be noticed while fighting."Ĭovering the Boer War in 1899, Churchill was captured in South Africa after the soldiers he was accompanying on an armored train were ambushed. In his own way, the young Churchill embodies all of these qualities. Millard writes about great men, but she doesn't shy away from human foibles: hubris, vanity, recklessness, deceit.
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