Ebook: My Early Life

The first twenty-five years of Churchill's life were full of adventure: night marches, cavalry charges, skirmishes on the North West Frontier, escape from a Boer prisoncamp and a visit to the Cuban War. Acknowledged as his best book, his zest for life bursts right off the page of My Early Life. Yet this is more than just an adventure story. It is an elegiac portrayal of the halcyon period of Edwardian content before the First World War, and deeply revealing of one of the dominating personalities of the twentieth century. Here lie the roots of that restless, questing energy and dauntless a.;Cover; Title Page; Contents; Illustrations; Dedication; Preface to the Original Edition; Chapter I: Childhood; Chapter II: Harrow; Chapter III: Examinations; Chapter IV: Sandhurst; Chapter V: The Fourth Hussars; Chapter VI: Cuba; Chapter VII: Hounslow; Chapter VIII: India; Chapter IX: Education at Bangalore; Chapter X: The Malakand Field Force; Chapter XI: The Mamund Valley; Chapter XII: The Tirah Expedition; Chapter XIII: A Difficulty with Kitchener; Chapter XIV: The Eve of Omdurman; Chapter XV: The Sensations of a Cavalry Charge; Chapter XVI: I Leave the Army; Chapter XVII: Oldham.