Sir Winston Churchill

One of the classic volumes of autobiography, ‘My Early Life’ is a lively and colourful account of a young man’s quest for action, adventure and danger. Churchill’s schooldays are undistinguished, but he is admitted to Sandhurst and embarks on a career as a soldier and a war correspondent, seeing action in Cuba, in India, in the Sudan – where he took part in the battle of Omdurman, of which he gives us a stirring account – and finally in South Africa. Taken prisoner by the Boers, Churchill makes a daring escape. Back home he embarks on the political career that is to make him one of Britain’s most distinguished parliamentarians.