Winston Churchill. – Pelling, Henry Hoge Kwaliteit

Winston Spencer Churchill was an extraordinary combination of soldier and statesman. Of aristocratic birth, he enlisted as a cavalry officer, saw action at the Battle of Omdurman and, as a civilian, reported the Boer War for the Manchester Guardian . Captured by the Boers, he escaped dramatically, and the popular appeal of his exploits helped him into a Parliamentary seat.;At the outset of World War I he became the First Lord of the Admiralty and acted as the initiator of the Antwerp and Gallipoli campaig…