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Author:
Winston S. Churchill
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978-0393029413
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0393029417
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W W Norton & Co Inc (May 1, 1991)
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Winston Churchill, in addition to his careers of soldier and politician, was a prolific writer under the pen name "Winston S. Churchill".

Winston Churchill, in addition to his careers of soldier and politician, was a prolific writer under the pen name "Winston S. After being commissioned into the 4th Queen's Own Hussars in 1895, Churchill gained permission to observe the Cuban War of Independence, and sent war reports to The Daily Graphic. He continued his war journalism in British India, at the Siege of Malakand, then in the Sudan during the Mahdist War and in southern Africa during the Second Boer War.

Although Winston Churchill is remember best as a statesman (and in my mind the greatest man of the 20th Century), he made his living through his pen. Churchill though of aristocratic background, was not extremely wealthy

Although Winston Churchill is remember best as a statesman (and in my mind the greatest man of the 20th Century), he made his living through his pen. Churchill though of aristocratic background, was not extremely wealthy. While he could have survived on the family fortune, his expensive tastes and zest for living would have bankrupted him. So he turned to writing to earn his living. Great Contemporaries is a series of essays written between 1929 and 1937 on the "great" leaders of the day. Churchill knew many of these leaders personally, and is able to supplement what might otherwise.

Winston Churchill had met Jan Christiaan Smuts when he returned from .

Winston Churchill had met Jan Christiaan Smuts when he returned from the Boer War in 1900. Elected to Parliament at the end of that year, he never again visited South Africa. Yet that country was to play an important part in his life for the next fifty years. Churchill had a powerful personality, with unbounded confidence and faith in his own star. It is difficult to imagine him considering anyone his equal. Smuts was an Afrikaner whose ancestors came from Holland in the mid-17th century, at the very start of Dutch settlement. He was born in 1870, four and one-half years before Churchill.

Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965) was a British politician, army officer, writer, and . Overview of Winston Churchill’s Life. Ironically, he would never have come to greatness but for his contemporary and bitter rival Adolf Hitler.

Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965) was a British politician, army officer, writer, and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945. The product of an alcoholic, syphilitic father and promiscuous American mother, Winston Churchill was one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century. Descended from the Dukes of Marlborough, Churchill was primed for success despite his parental problems. He graduated from the Sandhurst military academy in 1895 and embarked upon a dizzying army career.

Churchill though of aristocratic background, was not extremely wealthy.

Churchill's often prophetic writings from 1935. Churchill knew many of these leaders personally, and is able to supplement what might otherwise be a dry recitation of the facts of a career with personal stories and vignettes.

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Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. This biography of Winston Churchill provides detailed information about his childhood, life, achievements, works & timeline. Birthday: November 30, 1874. Nationality: British. Famous: Quotes By Winston Churchill Prime Ministers. Died At Age: 90. Sun Sign: Sagittarius.

Image caption Winston Churchill (in top hat, centre left) during the Sidney Street siege of 1911. Although Churchill was against home rule for Ireland and initially implemented harsh repression, he was also an early advocate of partition, Toye explains

Image caption Winston Churchill (in top hat, centre left) during the Sidney Street siege of 1911. 8. Sidney Street siege. Not long after the Tonypandy Riots, Churchill was under fire for rash involvement of a different sort. Although Churchill was against home rule for Ireland and initially implemented harsh repression, he was also an early advocate of partition, Toye explains. Churchill played a key role in the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, which ended the war. "It comes back to his character, which is: 'In war, resolution, in peace, magnanimity'," says Packwood.

The original edition of this collection of articles was published in 1937 (Thornton Butterworth); subsequent editions appeared in 1936 (with four new articles, including a portrait of FDR) and in 1943 (in which articles on Trotsky and Roosevelt were omitted for political reasons). This first American edition makes available Churchill's eloquent and personal observations on 25 prominent people of the era. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
  • This is a book I grew up with. There is a history and an emotional attachment. Was given to me by my dad with markings on some pages that I memorise for the beauty of the language. There were beautiful pictures too. It was a wonderful edition. Somehow I lost it. Somebody borrowed from my dad and it never came back. Tried in 2006 to buy the same book on Amazon and Ebay. I did find the exactly the same first or so UK edition but it was in hundreds of dollars. So with a heavy heart I gave up. But then I got this US edition at amazon. I loved it and gave it to my kids to memorise the same passages so that the language and its construction goes into the system which you will draw on when you sit down to write. You know Mr. Churchill writes very well and it is one of the best books he has written. I love the book. If people have not read it don't know what they have missed.

  • As a commentator notes, it is our good fortune that someone who was a major part of the making of 20th century history was also a gifted writer. This book is a jewel, with Churchill's insights on major figures viewed from his unique inside vantage point. The prose is a bit flowery and at times even Shakespearean, but still manages to be conversational. He weaves in literary references that set the tone on a classical and historic plane, sharing his stellar educational background and knowledge. In all, it is uniquely Churchillian. The piece on Kitchener is especially moving, as Churchill delves into the ironies of their relationship and its evolution over the years. This is a book to be kept close as one of the greats, and a deeply satisfying read.

  • (Note: this book was not written by Robert A. Smith, but by Winston Churchill!)

    Written in his usual admirable style, these are Churchill's extended character sketches of the great men of his time, ranging from the very well-known (Trotsky, Hitler, FDR, Lawrence of Arabia) to people you have probably never heard of, such as the first Earl of Birkenhead and the Earl of Rosebery. After reading them, you will wish you had known them... Not one person in the U.S. Congress can pass comparison with "F.E.," the first Earl of Birkenhead. These were largely men raised as aristocrats, very well educated, and with huge personal abilities of their own. The chapter on Asquith will open your eyes.

    It makes our leaders look like midgets.

    Highly recommended, indeed!

  • Although Winston Churchill is remember best as a statesman (and in my mind the greatest man of the 20th Century), he made his living through his pen. Churchill though of aristocratic background, was not extremely wealthy. While he could have survived on the family fortune, his expensive tastes and zest for living would have bankrupted him. So he turned to writing to earn his living.

    Great Contemporaries is a series of essays written between 1929 and 1937 on the "great" leaders of the day. Churchill knew many of these leaders personally, and is able to supplement what might otherwise be a dry recitation of the facts of a career with personal stories and vignettes.

    Perhaps the most famous of the essays is on "Hitler and his Choice, 1935." This essay is often cited by neo-Nazis and far leftists as proof that Churchill actually admired Hitler. But finally getting the chance to read the essay shows that any such analysis takes Churchill's words extremely out of context. Hitler was to be Churchill's great antagonist in the coming decade. In 1935, Churchill recognized that Hitler was facing a choice - would Hitler take a moderate road and perhaps be remembered as the leader who restored German honor, or who Hitler take the road of war. Churchill ends the essay with a warning, that German rearmament was continuing, and, of course, tragically, Churchill's misgivings were played out.

    One problem, with this book is that many of the "great" men described are almost forgotten today, at least outside their home countries. Men like the Earl of Rosebery (Prime Minister in the 1890s) or King Alfosno XIII of Spain probably make no impression on the American reader while George Curzon is remembered, if at all, as the man who roughly proposed the border between Poland and the Soviet Union (the "Curzon Line").

    The book includes essays on well-remembered men such as George Bernard Shaw, Clemenceau and Churchill's protégé T.E. Lawrence (better known as "Lawrence of Arabia"). These essays, full of personal remembrances by Churchill, are well worth the time.

  • Churchill's "Great Contemporaries" was originally published by Thornton Butterworth in 1937 with twenty-one essays on "Great Men of our age," all of which had earlier appeared in newspapers or magazines. The book appeared in a revised edition in 1938 from the same publisher with four additional essays, including an essay on "Roosevelt from Afar"--the book's only essay about an American. In 1942, with Britain allied in war with Soviet Russia and the United States, "Great Contemporaries" was reprinted without the Roosevelt essay and without the essays on Boris Savinkov and Leon Trotsky; in this wartime edition the essay on George Bernard Shaw was abridged by omitting the account of the trip Shaw took to the Soviet Union with Lady Astor. Unfortunately the Simon Publications edition reproduces this truncated 1942 edition, which lacks these three essays and part of the fourth. Readers who wish to read the entire book must therefore find an edition based on the 1938 edition with all twenty-five essays. A complete edition of the book with a new introduction, explanatory notes, and additional essays by Churchill, edited by the author of this review with Paul H. Courtenay and Erica L. Chenoweth (ISBN 1935191993), was published by ISI Books in June 2012 as a companion volume to the new edition of Churchill's "Thoughts and Adventures" published by ISI Books in 2009.