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I was interested in Churchill and T.R.'s adventures before and outside of their political careers and found these books in a thrift shop. I started the Churchill book. Young Churchill immediately reminded me of Teddy Roosevelt. The book then said the young entitled Churchill was less "Victorian" and more "Rooseveltian", wanting to experience fighting honorably in war. The political benefits would help both politically later, of course. Then I realized both books were written by the same author.
I particularly was interested in the Boer War and Churchill's escape from the Boers which this book is about.

 
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Shooting your way out of being all but captured with a C-96 (Broomhandle Mauser) is a legend maker! The whole Cuba thing was a "Adventure" forced on the world by the press. Many men and women where the stuff of legend also, but their valor was tainted by greed of the press!

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Inusuit said:
I think it's the Boer War. River of Doubtis a very good book. TR just about didn't make it back.
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Thanks. Fixed it. I remember reading when Churchill was captured by the Boers on that train that his Broomhandle Mauser was left on the train and returned to him later.
 
Churchill's six volume "Second World War" is am impressive read, the footnotes and detail show the extraordinary detail that he was involved in particularly early in the war. After those books, I felt like I knew the man.

“'You are drunk Sir Winston, you are disgustingly drunk. 'Yes, Mrs. Braddock, I am drunk. But you, Mrs. Braddock are ugly, and disgustingly fat. But, tomorrow morning, I, Winston Churchill will be sober.”

TR was no slouch, but I too would prefer to have met or lived as Winston Churchill.
 
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Funny thing about that Murrow quote:

The recent movie “Darkest Hour” has Stephen Dillane as Lord Halifax utter that line after Churchill’s famous 1940 speech. I thought “Wait, what?” and had to reassure myself online that I was not misremembering and that quote didn’t belong there historically, although it fit perfectly.
 
I've read Biography's and watched many historical documentary videos on both men. Still can't believe that after saving England from the Nazis during WWll, they threw him out of office right after the war ended.
 
This is a great book about Churchill's secret war.
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chief38 said:
... Still can't believe that after saving England from the Nazis during WWll, they threw him out of office right after the war ended.
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Keep in mind that people in Britain’s parliamentary system don’t vote for the Prime Minister as such.

Churchill was popular, but that popularity did not extend to his Conservative Party, and thus the MP’s that the voters actually elected, once the war-time coalition government with the Labour Party was over.

It’s my understanding of the situation that this, rather than the people wanting to dump Churchill personally, accounts for his loss of a majority in Parliament.
 
OP, you picked up 2 really good books about my two favorite historical figures. Love reading and learning about them.

Houston Rick, agree with you also on the excellence of Churchill’s multi volume history of the Second World War.


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