by Celia Sandys
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by Celia Sandys
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by Sir Winston S. Churchill
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"The author", the jacket-blurb tells us, "is a granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill. Her mother was Churchill's eldest daughter, Diana, and her father was Lord Duncan-Sandys, the former Cabinet Minister." That's some pedigree, for better or for worse. Sandys covers the same material as Churchill himself did in his enthralling My Early Life 1874-1904--his extraordinary adventures as a journalist in South Africa during the South African Wars--capture, escape, derring-do. Her status as a family member does not give her any particularly privileged perspective, but what it does do is to permit her a wonderfully louche hero-worshipping tone.
"The author", the jacket-blurb tells us, "is a granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill. Her mother was Churchill's eldest daughter, Diana, and her father was Lord Duncan-Sandys, the former Cabinet Minister." That's some pedigree, for better or for worse. Sandys covers the same material as Churchill himself did in his enthralling My Early Life 1874-1904--his extraordinary adventures as a journalist in South Africa during the South African Wars--capture, escape, derring-do. Her status as a family member does not give her any particularly privileged perspective, but what it does do is to permit her a wonderfully louche hero-worshipping tone.
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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The Boer War was a turning point in the young Churchill's life - within three months of his return from his adventures as correspondent, soldier, POW and escapee in South Africa, he became an MP at the age of 25. Here Churchill's granddaughter retraces his steps and presents a thrilling account of this neglected episode in her illustrious grandfather's career. (Kirkus UK)
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