TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sandys,Celia
TI  - Churchill wanted dead or alive /Celia Sandys
SN  - 9781623490744
AV  - DA566 .C487 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - College Station
PB  - Texas A and M University Press
KW  - Churchill, Winston,
KW  - South African War, 1899-1902
KW  - Prisoners and prisons, Afrikaner
KW  - Prisoners of war
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Biography
KW  - Journalists
KW  - Prime ministers
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Originally published in Great Britain by HarperCollins Publishers, 1999; 2; Gateway --; Preparing for war --; Cruising to a catastrophe --; The station yard --; Knight errant --; The Botha legend --; Into captivity --; The states model school --; Controversy --; Wanted dead or alive --; A soldier again --; A general on Spion Kop --; Into Ladysmith --; A lull in the storm --; Return to Pretoria --; Epilogue: a triumphal progress; 2; b
N2  - ". . . Notable for its depiction of young Churchill, warts and all, as a very human character ..."--New York Times"A bestseller in the UK, this portrait of Winston Churchill, written by his granddaughter, unapologetically presents the future prime minister as an action hero in the Boer War. It's rousing reading. Sandy's affection for her grandfather is obvious, but she shows enough of his grandiosity to maintain a reader's trust. ... Sandys is fully aware of the extent to which her grandfather had a finger to the political winds during his exploits: he sought the lim
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