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Nov 30, 2011 · Churchill was appointed to the coveted post on Wednesday, 25 October 1911, and, like most things he did, he took it up with great gusto. Churchill adored Navy life aboard the Admiralty yacht Enchantress. After taking up office, he set out to visit every capital ship and every Royal Navy base in the British Isles.
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Feb 12, 2009 · Within a few days, Winston was in bed with pneumonia. For five days he clung to life. The faithful Doctor Roose barely left his side and his parents rushed to Brighton. It is clear from the bulletins which the doctor wrote three or four times a day that Winston did, indeed, very nearly die.
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A wonderful treat is in store in Churchill’s most approachable book. Harold Nicolson likened My EarlyLife to “a beaker of champagne,” His bubbly expression was not shy of the mark. Anyone drawn to Churchill by Second World War memoirs will find his autobiography a revelation. The memoirs chronicle a public struggle against national extinction. The ...
My Early Life begins with Churchill’s first memories, of the “Little Lodge” in Dublin. There his father lived as secretary to his grandfather, the 7th Duke of Marlborough. Winston’s description of his nurse, Mrs. Everest, is heartwarming. Impressions of his schools may be familiar to many who were sent away to school. The story of his years at the ...
My own fine copy of My Early Life, complete with its dust jacket, is remarkable for its pristine freshness. It is bound in a wine-colored cloth with the title in gilt on cover and spine. The preface, written at Chartwell, is dated August, 1930. There are a number of interesting maps, and the illustrations are delightful. Especially memorable are “T...
Churchill’s dedication of My Early Life “To a new generation” confesses that he has given a picture of a distant time. If the years 1874-1908 was already long gone in 1930, how much farther away they seem to us now. Churchill however recommends the book to modern readers as “ a story of youthful endeavour.” It is “set down candidly and with as much...
Fine and interesting as the My Early Lifeis, there is one small drawback. Some of what Churchill sets down had appeared in his first books. This is retrospective writing. It would be unfair call it a “hash up.” Yet I felt disappointment to have it end at what was then his life’s the half-way mark. Just as we are expecting the author’s politics to e...
Enjoyment is, of course, the best gauge of good writing—and only the surliest of mortals could fail to find enjoyment in My Early Life. There is so much which holds and captures the imagination: so much zest, so much fun. Here, however, we must be content with glimpses—asides, as it were—in the building up of a young and adventurous life. Take this...
Mrs. Everest had already been pictured, lovingly and nobly, but not identified, in Churchill’s novel Savrola. But she becomes immortalized in My Early Life: My nurse was my confidant. Mrs. Everest it was who looked after me and tended all my wants. It was to her I poured out my many troubles, both now and in my schooldays. Before she came to us, sh...
Mr. Fearon was a distinguished bibliophile and collector who years ago left me a copy of his unpublished commentary on Churchill’s books. He had, I think, a way with words, and an appreciation of Churchill’s work that is well worth our attention. —RML
Churchill was born into the world of hunting, shooting and fishing and throughout his life they were to prove spasmodic distractions. But it was hunting and polo, first learned as a young cavalry officer in India, that he enjoyed most of all. In the summer of 1949, Churchill embarked on a new venture – he bought a racehorse.
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Jan 19, 2009 · Churchill’s candidature at Oldham was very much a marriage of convenience. A “young man in a hurry,” he was desperate to follow in his famous father’s footsteps. And the Conservative Party in Oldham was keen to field a candidate with the Churchill name and family connections. At the end of the last century the borough of Oldham still ...
Aug 15, 2014 · Illustrated. 452 pp. Pegasus Books. $28.95. A correction was made on. Aug. 31, 2014. : A review on Aug. 17 about “Churchill and Empire: A Portrait of an Imperialist,” by Lawrence James ...
