04242cam a2200589 4500 468415343 TxAuBib 20201029120000.0 ||||||s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385535748 0385535740 B015BCVX0M Amazon 1b6eedf7-1d76-4599-8def-9a59ac91b6c6 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 216861 216861 216861 2637579 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Millard, Candice. Hero of the Empire [Libby eBook] : The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2016. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 36MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 35MB. hero of the empire by candace millard. fathers day gifts from daughter. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. winston churchill biography. eleanor roosevelt biography. first fathers day gifts. winston churchill books. military history books. grandparents day gifts. mark twain biography. churchill biography. Winston Churchill. fathers day gifts. best biographies. father day gifts. churchill books. river of doubt. history books. books for dad. british gifts. fathers day. dad books. HTML:<b>From <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Destiny of the Republic</i> and <i>The River of Doubt</i>, a thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War</b><br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> Churchill arrived in South Africa in 1899, valet and crates of vintage wine in tow, there to cover the brutal colonial war the British were fighting with Boer rebels. But just two weeks after his arrival, the soldiers he was accompanying on an armored train were ambushed, and Churchill was taken prisoner. Remarkably, he pulled off a daring escape—but then had to traverse hundreds of miles of enemy territory, alone, with nothing but a crumpled wad of cash, four slabs of chocolate, and his wits to guide him.<br /> <br /> The story of his escape is incredible enough, but then Churchill enlisted, returned to South Africa, fought in several battles, and ultimately liberated the men with whom he had been imprisoned.<br /> <br /> Churchill would later remark that this period, "could I have seen my future, was to lay the foundations of my later life." Millard spins an epic story of bravery, savagery, and chance encounters with a cast of historical characters—including Rudyard Kipling, Lord Kitchener, and Mohandas Gandhi—with whom he would later share the world stage. But <i>Hero of the Empire</i> is more than an adventure story, for the lessons Churchill took from the Boer War would profoundly affect 20th century history. Biography & Autobiography. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-28 22:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1b6eedf7-1d76-4599-8def-9a59ac91b6c6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1b6eedf7-1d76-4599-8def-9a59ac91b6c6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1b6eedf7-1d76-4599-8def-9a59ac91b6c6&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)