The defeat of the British Empire in the First Boer War had been a bitter pill that young imperialists like Churchill refused to swallow. “Hero of the Empire” draws out three strands of Churchill’s personality: the imperialist, the adventurer and the mommy’s boy. “It will break my heart for I have nothing else but ambition to cling to.” The Victorian era’s last battle, the Second Boer War of 1899-1902, would be the making of Churchill as a hero and a celebrity, the biographer Candice Millard argues in this gripping tale of his greatest youthful adventure. “What an awful thing it will be if I don’t come off,” wrote a 24-year-old aristocrat, journalist and soldier named Winston Churchill to his mother at the beginning of 1899. HERO OF THE EMPIRE The Boer War, a Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill By Candice Millard Illustrated.
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