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Hero of the empire, the Boer war, a daring escape, and the making of Winston Churchill, Candice Millard

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Hero of the empire

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Candice Millard

the Boer war, a daring escape, and the making of Winston Churchill

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 journalist covering a Cuban uprising against the Spanish, glory and fame had eluded him

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