Winston Churchill Reporting, Simon Read
Winston Churchill Reporting, Simon Read
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Winston Churchill Reporting

Author: Simon Read

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 8 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2016


Synopsis

“A richly detailed look at Churchill’s early ambitions and triumphs.” (Kirkus Revies)

Before Winston Churchill’s finest hour as Britain’s wartime leader, he was a young man determined to make a name for himself. When his regiment was stationed in India, far from any action, Churchill sought other avenues, and his writing abilities opened the way. He became a war correspondent reporting from the front lines in Cuba, India, the Sudan, and South Africa.
Churchill mastered his celebrated command of the English language while reporting from far-flung corners of the world between 1895 and 1900. He also developed strong opinions about war. Aided by a tremendous amount of courage and an unshakeable belief in his own destiney, he thought little of his own safety and jumped at any chance to be where bullets flew and canons roared: “I have faith in my star – that I am intended to do something in the world,” he wrote to his mother before heading into battle at the age of twenty-three.
Based on Winston’s private letters and war reportage, Winston Churchill Reporting intertwines his daring exploits in combat, adventures in distant corners of the globe, and rise as a major literary talent – experiences that shaped the world leader he woulda become.

About Simon Read

Simon Read is an award-winning journalist and author. His most recent histories include The Iron Sea: How the Allies Hunted and Destroyed Hitler’s Warships; Winston Churchill Reporting: Adventures of a Young War Correspondent; and Human Game: The ‘Great Escape’ Murders and the Hunt for the Gestapo Gunmen. His work has been featured on the top-rated true crime podcasts Morbid and Criminal. As a journalist, his writing has appeared in a variety of journals, from the San Francisco Chronicle to Time Magazine. Simon lives in Phoenix, Arizona.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jason

(Reprinted from the Chicago Center for Literature and Photography [cclapcenter.com]. I am the original author of this essay, as well as the owner of CCLaP; it is not being reprinted illegally.) Most of us know Winston Churchill as the rotund, elderly leader of Great Britain during the tumultuous year......more

Goodreads review by Phillip

Winston Churchill had a career as a war correspondent covering Britain's colonial wars in India, Egypt. and South Africa. He was a brave man who was in the thick of the action but a British Imperialist who advocated colonialism. Churchill could give the reader an exciting account of a war that was f......more