Churchill Wanted Dead or Alive
Sandys, Celia
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233pp. B/w photos throughout. Biographical account of Churchill's time spent in South Africa during the Boer War. Clean. Seller Inventory # 004932
Bibliographic Details
Title: Churchill Wanted Dead or Alive
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Hard Cover
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition
About this title
Her Churchill is a flawless, marvellous British hero; extraordinarily brave in the face of battle, energetic, resourceful. Purple prose describes Churchill's brilliant nature; chapters have titles like "A Knight Errant" and "A Triumphal Progress". Even his journalism is represented as having the tint of a Golden Age ("...conjures genuine excitement". Short staccato sentences are set against melodious passages: "he must rank amongst the greatest war correspondents"). In a more detached biographer this would all come over as a little vulgar, not to say unbalanced, but a memoir of one's grandfather is a slightly different thing. More to the point Sandys pretty much pulls it off: the reader gets swept along in the whole brightly-coloured brio of the thing. Surprisingly refreshing in its shameless puffing. --Adam Roberts
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