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Book Condition: Used Fine in Fine dust jacket
ISBN: 0385535732 / 9780385535731
Seller: Storbeck's

United States
About Item: New York: Doubleday. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. Protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. Burgundy boards with burgundy spine imprinted in gold with title and author. Map on endpapers. Full number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. 381 pages. 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 journalistcovering a Cuban uprising against the Spanish, glory and fame had eluded him. 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… Read More
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