The amazing Mister Churchill

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A reissue of Winston Churchill: An Informal Study of Greatness
THE AMAZING MR. CHURCHILL
By ROBERT LEWIS TAYLOR
"The last of the great statesmen a man of multiple genius (who) will be devotedly remembered as one of the most exasperating figures of history possibly the liveliest personality yet produced by the upper vertebrates." Each of these epithets the author applies, and with vivid documentation, to the very famous, but very human, Mr. Winston Churchill.
Here, in a uniquely fresh, affectionate, and spirited biography, is the incomparable Britisher with all his many facets. As a ruggedly individuahstic schoolboy, he successfully stymied a series of schools in attempts to teach him the classics, but committed to memory a complete dictionary of quotations when such knowledge later seemed expedient. As a youthful army officer and foreign correspondent, he looked over the comic-opera Cuban Revolution of 1895; in India he played top-flight polo, and evidenced military... Tovább

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A reissue of Winston Churchill: An Informal Study of Greatness
THE AMAZING MR. CHURCHILL
By ROBERT LEWIS TAYLOR
"The last of the great statesmen a man of multiple genius (who) will be devotedly remembered as one of the most exasperating figures of history possibly the liveliest personality yet produced by the upper vertebrates." Each of these epithets the author applies, and with vivid documentation, to the very famous, but very human, Mr. Winston Churchill.
Here, in a uniquely fresh, affectionate, and spirited biography, is the incomparable Britisher with all his many facets. As a ruggedly individuahstic schoolboy, he successfully stymied a series of schools in attempts to teach him the classics, but committed to memory a complete dictionary of quotations when such knowledge later seemed expedient. As a youthful army officer and foreign correspondent, he looked over the comic-opera Cuban Revolution of 1895; in India he played top-flight polo, and evidenced military prowess and further writing talents, carrying these latter activities on to greater glory in the Egyptian Sudan. In the South African Boer War his colorful prisoner-of-war escape from the enemy capital made world-wide news. In World War I he headed the British admiralty as First Lord, then served for a time in France as an unorthodox colonel commanding the 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers.
The political history of the Prime Minister is, of course, at the heart of this book, but Churchill's approach to politics is as unusual as it is engrossing. Frequently the despair of his colleagues as well as his opposition, he has been in and out of government service for half a century, in a roller-coaster career climaxed by his valorous leadership of the (continued on back flap) Vissza