The Young Churchill: The Early Years of Winston Churchill - Hardcover

Sandys, Celia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525940480 ISBN 13: 9780525940487

Publisher: Dutton, 1995

Synopsis

Churchill's granddaughter--who is featured in a PBS series about Churchill to be broadcast in October--draws on Churchill's writings and recollections to portray a child often lonely and ill, but already marked by extraordinary tenacity. 15,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Celia Sandys is the granddaughter of Winston Churchill. She is the author of The Young Churchill and Churchill: Wanted Dead or Alive.

From Publishers Weekly:

Most Churchill biographies pay scant attention to the statesman's formative years and the childhood influences on his character and personality. In this charmer of a book, Sandys, his granddaughter, has assembled early writings and artistic efforts, family letters and school reports, along with Churchill's mature recollections and her own illuminating commentary, to fill the gap. Winston's letters from boarding school reflect extremes of mood from cockiness to utter dejection, presaging the depression that plagued his later years. The collection includes revealing interchanges with his mother and with his beloved nanny, and stern letters of correction from his adored but hard-to-please father. The book covers the years from his birth in 1874 to his coming of age in 1895, when Churchill was commissioned into the Fourth Hussars cavalry unit. Generously illustrated with photos, facsimiles of letters, school reports, sketches and Churchill's later oil paintings of childhood haunts.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0525940480
• ISBN 13: 9780525940487
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224