WINSTON CHURCHILL SOLDIER

The Military Life of a Gentleman at War

2005

First English Edition

By: Douglas S. Russell

Brassey’s [UK]

Biblio: (Za750)

8vo (480 pages, illustrated, maps.)

Hardcover in Dust Jacket [Tan cloth]

Item Number: 10164

$75.00

Description

A virtually mint copy of the First English edition, in an unclipped dust jacket.
The first full-length biography of Churchill via his long military career. Using an a range of sources, and with previously unpublished photographs, and detailed maps drawn by Sir Martin Gilbert, Russell illuminates Churchill’s motives, abilities, experiences, successes and failures, and his unswerving sense of destiny as an officer in the British Army.
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