About this item
This is the intriguing chronicle of Winston Churchill's early years as a young soldier fighting in several different types of wars -- on horseback in the cavalry at Khartoum, with saber and lance against the Dervishes at age twenty-two, in the South African war against the Boers, and finally in the First World War after he resigned as First Lord of the Admiralty, to volunteer to lead a Scottish brigade in the trenches of the Western Front, as Lieutenant-Colonel. The book also covers the failure, bloodshed, and disgrace of Gallipoli that was blamed on him, which could have led to his downfall, as well as the formative relationships he had with the two important women in his young life - his mother, Jennie, who was an eighteen-year-old woman when she married an English aristocrat, and Churchill's young wife, Clementine.
About the Author
John Harte was born in London, England, between the two World Wars. He absorbed the experiences and lessons of the first world war while growing up in its aftermath, and lived through the second one.
The fact that the author was born when London was the center of the British Empire and the free world, politically, financially, socially and culturally, invests his books about Winston Churchill and England with particular significance, since few people are left who can describe at first-hand what it was really like.
He witnessed at first hand the bombing of London and the Battle of Britain; the launching of the D-Day landings from England's south coast, and the enemy's V1 and V2 rocket attacks intended to destroy London and its population.
He began his writing career as a playwright with four plays produced in London theaters. He was also an investigative journalist writing for three leading publications in the UK.
After moving to South Africa to work in the advertising industry with J. Walter Thompson, he also wrote freelance feature articles for the two leading newspapers, which were syndicated worldwide by Reuters, and he also broadcast his own stories on the SABC.
He now lives in Ottawa, Canada.
See more at: JohnHarteBooks.com
representation: Steven Harris, CSG Literary Partners.
