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• Format: Large print book - Hardback
• Released: 2005
• Publisher: Chivers Press
• ISBN: 9780754094531
• Category: Large Print Books Non-fiction
• Availability: Available for immediate dispatch
• Our Price: £18.99
• Format(mm): 242x164
• Product Weight: 1,041gm

Book summary

In the Footsteps of Churchill is both a study in character and the story of an extraordinary career. Historian Richard Holmes uses new material to investigate the influences that shaped the man: his schooldays, his flamboyant father, Randolph, and his attractive American mother, Jennie. Holmes argues that the qualities that made Churchill great also led him to commit catastrophic blunders. The recklessness that made him a hero when he was a young correspondent during the Boer War, for example, cost thousands of Allied lives during his planning of the Gallipoli campaign in 1915, and may also have contributed to the fall of Singapore in 1942. In the Footsteps of Churchill takes us on an exhilarating journey through Harrow School, The North-West Frontier, the Sudan, South Africa, 10 Downing Street and his beloved Chartwell; a journey that begins in the aristocratic splendour of Blenheim Palace and ends in the quiet of a country churchyard not far away – the compass of an extraordinary life in a few Oxfordshire acres …