My Early Life de Winston S. Churchill

My Early Life: A Roving Commission

Winston S. Churchill

Frederick Davidson

As a visionary, statesman, historian, and the most eloquent spokesman against Nazi Germany, Winston Churchill was one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century.This is the story of the first thirty years of his life, up to the point where his unique parliamentary career was just beginning. From childhood and his apprentice days at Harrow and Sandhurst we follow him on active service to Cuba, the northwest frontier, Omdurman and the Boer War including the historic story of his escape from captivity whilst in the background are his early adventures in politics and literature.

I have tried, in each part of the quarter-century in which this tale lies, to show the point of view appropriate to my years, whether as a child, a schoolboy, a cadet, a subaltern, a war-correspondent or a youthful politician When I survey this work as a whole I find I have drawn a picture of a vanished age. from the author s preface

My Early Lifegives listeners insights into the shaping of a great leader."

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One of the most famous political figures of the twentieth century, Sir Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) was also a well-known historian, biographer, and writer. Among his many books are The World Crisis (six volumes), The Second World War (six volumes). and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (our volumes).

The editor of this St. Augustine’s edition of My Early Life: A Roving Commission, is Churchill scholar James W. Muller, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, Chairman of the Board of Academic Advisers of the International Churchill Society, and a by-fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He edited the definitive edition of Churchill’s 1899 book The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan, published in two volumes by St. Augustine’s Press in 2020, and similar editions of two books of essays Churchill published later in the 1930s, Thoughts and Adventures and Great Contemporaries, published in 2024 by Bloomsbury Books.

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Here, in his own words, are the fascinating first thirty years in the life of one of the most provocative and compelling leaders of the twentieth century - Winston Churchill. As a visionary, statesman, and historian, and the most eloquent spokesman against the Nazi Germany, Winston Churchill was one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century. In this autobiography, Churchill recalls his childhood, his schooling, his years as a war correspondent in South Africa during the Boer War, and his first forays into politics as a member of Parliament. My Early Life not only gives readers insights into the shaping of a great leader but, as Churchill himself wrote, "a picture of a vanished age".

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CONTENTS

Introduction by William Manchester

Preface by the Author

CHAPTER

I. Childhood

II. Harrow

III. Examinations

IV. Sandhurst

V. The Fourth Hussars

VI. Cuba

VII. hounslow

VIII. India

IX. Education at Bangalore

X. The Malakand Field Force

XI. The Mamund Valley

XII. The Tirah Expedition

XIII. A Difficulty with Kitchener

XIV. The Eve of Omdurman

XV. The Sensations of a Cavalry Charge

XVI. I Leave the Army

XVII. Oldham

XVIII. With Buller to the Cape

XIX. The Armoured Train

XX. In Durance Vile

XXI. I Escape from the Boers -- I

XXII. I Escape from the Boers -- II

XXIII. Back to the Army

XXIV. Spion Kop

XXV. The Relief of Ladysmith

XXVI. In the Orange Free State

XXVII. Johannesburg and Pretoria

XXVIII. The Khaki Election

XXIX. The House of Commons

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