The dramatic story of one of the most formative years in the life of Winston Churchill.
Candice Millard is the author of The New York Times bestsellers The River of Doubt and Destiny of the Republic. She lives in Kansas City with her husband and three children.
Completely engrossing
*Andrew Roberts*
Combining vivid narrative and original scholarship, Candice Millard
reveals how Winston Churchill laid the foundations of his political
career during the Boer War. Supremely courageous, flagrantly
ambitious and incredibly lucky, young Winston emerges as the
authentic hero of this thrilling tale of imperial derring-do
*Piers Brendon, Former Keeper of the Archives Centre, Churchill
College, Cambridge*
With consummate narrative skill and admirable first-hand research,
Candice Millard has added to the canon of great works on Winston
Churchill a book essential to a better understanding of his life
and personality. Hero of The Empire is both eminently readable and
exceptionally informative about the evolution of one of Britain's
greatest statesmen
*Phil Reed, Director of the Churchill War Rooms*
Using many unpublished sources, she weaves into a nail-biting
escape story a larger picture of Africa at the cusp of the 20th
century. Her eye for humanising detail, her vivid topographical
descriptions and her keen awareness of the realities (and
surrealities) of war come together in a truly fascinating book.
*Financial Times*
A gripping story [that] casts an interestingly oblique light on
Churchill's personality, and on a traumatic war.
*Observer*
Ms. Millard also shows, as she has in her previous work, that she
has a great ear for quotes - an underrated virtue in writers of
history ... Her eye for detail is equally good.
*The New York Times*
This is a tremendously readable and enjoyable book ... She aims to
retell the story in a thrilling contemporary style for a generation
of readers, and in this she succeeds. Most historians will have
cause to envy her narrative ability. Her prose gallops along; he
short, action-packed chapters often screech to a halt on a
cliffhanger.
*The New York Times Book Review*
Thanks to her formidable storytelling skills, she has succeeded in
infusing this familiar narrative with color, excitement and life.
Particularly effective is her clear-eyed view of the young
Churchill as a bumptious self-promoter whose exploits in Africa
were as farcical as they were courageous.
*Washington Post*
Few can match the originality and narrative power of Candice
Millard's elegantly written and surprisingly revealing account of
the young Churchill's exploits during the Boer War.
*Daily Telegraph*
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