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Winston Churchill - His Military Life 1895-1945 By: Michael Paterson A first edition hardcover published by D&C in 2005 Black cover boards with gold writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions, dustjacket is mostly complete 1cm square tear at bottom right front cover Packaging and Postage within South Africa R60.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation

One of the greatest talents that Winston Churchill was blessed with was his extraordinary command of the English language. He would go on to write a prodigious 65 books in his lifetime. He was rewarded for this in 1953 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Yet in Britain his abilities as a writer were already widely recognized by the end of the 19th century. Yet oddly enough he had not excelled academically at school and it was only on his third attempt that he passed the entrance examination to the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. Before entering politics he went on to combine his military career with journalism and shortly after the outbreak of the South African War in 1899, he was contracted as a war correspondent for the Morning Post. He made his way to the Natal front where he was destined to become one of the highest-paid newspaper reporters in the world. Much has been made of Churchill’s heroism. The exceptional courage he displayed when defending the derailed armoured train at Chieveley in Natal made his reputation. Yet strictly speaking as a journalist he was a non-combatant, but on his capture, the Boers treated him as a combatant because of his actions at the armoured train. This was not an isolated incident of bravery for on other occasions, in Cuba, India and in Africa, his sometimes almost reckless courage had drawn widespread comment. On three different occasions during the Malakand campaign in India, he rode his pony along the skirmish line while everyone else was ducking for cover. He admitted that his actions were foolish, but playing for high stakes was a calculated risk. ‘Given an audience there is no act too daring or too noble’, he wrote to his mother, and concluded his letter by saying: ‘... without the gallery things are different.’ Scaling the wall surrounding the prison yard in Pretoria and making his way through enemy territory to Portuguese East Africa was not considered a particularly great feat by the British military. Yet his escape he was largely unknown to the British people until then was hailed by many as one of the greatest military escapes ever. His instant fame, to a large degree, came about because the war was going badly for the British Army at the time. A depressed British people needed a hero to bolster their sagging enthusiasm for the war, so Winston Churchill was their man. He had the need to stay in the limelight to fuel his political ambitions and the best way to achieve that was by returning to the front as a journalist and part-time soldier after his escape where he continued to captivate the readers of the Morning Post with his dispatches, writing convincingly about his own and other’s front-line experiences. His stories of how he miraculously escaped the bullets that whistled around him in Natal and the Orange Free State and how he rode a bicycle through enemy-held Johannesburg, ending with his triumphant returned to Pretoria where he helped to liberate his former fellow POW's from captivity, earned his newspaper a fortune. The fact that the adventures he described sometimes did not happen exactly the way he related them didn't seem to bother anyone. William Manchester wrote: ‘Virtually every event he (Churchill) described in South Africa, as in Cuba, on the North-West Frontier, and at Omdurman, was witnessed by others with whom recollections were consistent. The difference, of course, lay in the interpretation.’ I set out to discover the real Churchill in those early years of his life. During this process I discovered many facets to this complex and controversial man. At times I felt like a certain painter described by Cervantes. This sage artist was asked, as he was starting on a new canvas, what his picture was to be. ‘That’, he replied, ‘is as it may turn out.’ So this, my account of how the young and extraordinary Winston Churchill became a hero during the South African War, is how it turned out. Paperback, 268 pages. Published August 2008  

One of the greatest talents that Winston Churchill was blessed with was his extraordinary command of the English language. He would go on to write a prodigious 65 books in his lifetime. He was rewarded for this in 1953 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Yet in Britain his abilities as a writer were already widely recognized by the end of the 19th century. Yet oddly enough he had not excelled academically at school and it was only on his third attempt that he passed the entrance examination to the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. Before entering politics he went on to combine his military career with journalism and shortly after the outbreak of the South African War in 1899, he was contracted as a war correspondent for the Morning Post. He made his way to the Natal front where he was destined to become one of the highest-paid newspaper reporters in the world. Much has been made of Churchills heroism. The exceptional courage he displayed when defending the derailed armoured train at Chieveley in Natal made his reputation. Yet strictly speaking as a journalist he was a non-combatant, but on his capture, the Boers treated him as a combatant because of his actions at the armoured train. This was not an isolated incident of bravery for on other occasions, in Cuba, India and in Africa, his sometimes almost reckless courage had drawn widespread comment. On three different occasions during the Malakand campaign in India, he rode his pony along the skirmish line while everyone else was ducking for cover. He admitted that his actions were foolish, but playing for high stakes was a calculated risk. Given an audience there is no act too daring or too noble, he wrote to his mother, and concluded his letter by saying:... without the gallery things are different. Scaling the wall surrounding the prison yard in Pretoria and making his way through enemy territory to Portuguese East Africa was not considered a particularly great feat by the British military. Yet his escape he was largely unknown to the British people until then was hailed by many as one of the greatest military escapes ever. His instant fame, to a large degree, came about because the war was going badly for the British Army at the time. A depressed British people needed a hero to bolster their sagging enthusiasm for the war, so Winston Churchill was their man. He had the need to stay in the limelight to fuel his political ambitions and the best way to achieve that was by returning to the front as a journalist and part-time soldier after his escape where he continued to captivate the readers of the Morning Post with his dispatches, writing convincingly about his own and others front-line experiences. His stories of how he miraculously escaped the bullets that whistled around him in Natal and the Orange Free State and how he rode a bicycle through enemy-held Johannesburg, ending with his triumphant returned to Pretoria where he helped to liberate his former fellow POW's from captivity, earned his newspaper a fortune. The fact that the adventures he described sometimes did not happen exactly the way he related them didn't seem to bother anyone. William Manchester wrote: Virtually every event he (Churchill) described in South Africa, as in Cuba, on the North-West Frontier, and at Omdurman, was witnessed by others with whom recollections were consistent. The difference, of course, lay in the interpretation. I set out to discover the real Churchill in those early years of his life. During this process I discovered many facets to this complex and controversial man. At times I felt like a certain painter described by Cervantes. This sage artist was asked, as he was starting on a new canvas, what his picture was to be. That, he replied, is as it may turn out. So this, my account of how the young and extraordinary Winston Churchill became a hero during the South African War, is how it turned out. Paperback, 268 pages. Published August 2008  

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1999. Soft cover; 233 pages. Very good condition. Under 1kg.   In this stirring biography of a brash, resourceful Churchill in his early twenties, Celia Sandys retraces her illustrious grandfather's path through South Africa as she reconstructs his adventures during nine months of the Anglo-Boer War at the end of the last century. She visits the campsites where the bold war correspondent and ready soldier bivouacked, the battlefields where he skirmished and fought, the site of his incarceration in Pretoria as the Boers' prisoner of war; she follows the route of his daring escape to the Mozambique border. Using both British and South African sources, which alternately reveal the young combatant as a courageous ally or formidable foe, Sandys narrates the heart-stopping exploits of a Churchill that history has largely forgotten. Yet his heroics in Africa thrust him to fame on the international stage, and within three months of his return to England, at the age of twenty-five, Churchill became a member of Parliament. Churchill: Wanted Dead or Alive offers both a multifaceted portrait of the youthful adventurer who would become England's legendary prime minister and an exciting tale of the turbulent events one hundred years ago that defined South Africa for modern times.      

The Medallic Portraits of Sir Winston Churchill By: J. Eric Engstrom A first edition hardcover published by Spinks in 1972 Orange cover boards with gold writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions, dustjacket is complete, but with nick & tear to spine & bookends Postage within South Africa R30.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postage Quote

Former Naval Person, Winston Churchill and the Royal Navy by Vice Admiral Sir Peter Gretton A first edition hardcover published by Cassell in 1968 Blue cover boards with gold writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions, dustjacket is complete. Postage within South Africa will be R30-00 Overseas buyers can contact us for a postal quote.

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Hardback. Leo Cooper. 1972. ISBN: 850521289. 350 pp with bw illustrations and sketch maps.. Good condition in hardcover with slightly scuffed dw; unrelated inscr on epsThe original despatches of Winston Churchill's first three wars, on the NW Frontier, the Sudan and in South Africa.

Road To Victory, Winston S. Churchill 1941-1945 by Martin Gilbert A first edition hardcover published by Heinemann in 1986 Blue cover boards with gold writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions, dustjacket is complete, like new. Postage cost within South Africa will be R40.00 Overseas buyers can contact us for a postal quote

London to Ladysmith via Pretoria By Winston Spencer Churchill A reprint hardcover edition published by Griggs in 1982 Brown cover boards with black writing to the spine & front cover, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions, dustjacket is complete, light nick & tear to spine & bookends Postage within South Africa R50.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation abe #

London to Ladysmith via Pretoria By Winston Spencer Churchill A reprint hardcover edition published by GRigg Picture cover boards are clean & bright, binding is tight & strong, all maps present, dustjacket is complete clean & bright, a nice copy Postage within South Africa R50.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation Abe #

PENN JACK. A SURGEON'S STORY. "It's the devine right of man to look human." Cape Town ?, Circa . Typed Manuscript. This seems to be the typed manuscript of this extremely scares item. The only printed copy I could trace is part of the Brenthurst Library's collection. All the illustrations in their copy are full page photocopy quality portraits.The frontis and all the other illustrations, in my copy, are all original glossy b&w photos pasted in and include photos of Jack Penn, Anne Penn, Diana Penn, Lepers at Nagashima, Hiroshima mother and child, Jan van Riebeeck, Lord Joseph Lister, Winston Churchill, Sir Archibald McIndoe, Jan Smuts, Henrietta Stockdale, Roy Welensky, Albert Schweitzer, Dr Chaim Sheba, Moshe Dayan, David Ben-Gurion, General Matthew Ridgway, Abraham Colles, as well as photos of 2 letters written by dr Albert Schweitzer. In his Preface, Penn writes: "The major part of this autobiography was written in 'The Right to Look Human', which is now out of print. I have taken the decision to rewrite it with modifications as dictated by the flux of time."  217 Pp. A biographical discription of Jack Penn can be found at "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Penn"                Near Fine. Limp cardboard covers.. Spine is slightly faded and a small inkscratch appears on upper cover, otherwise this is a very neat, tight and well preserved item. (#) biography, south africa, plastic surgery, brenthurst, wwii, world war,