Churchill Wanted Dead or Alive

by Sandys, Celia

• ISBN13: 9780786708161
• ISBN10: 0786708166
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-12-19
• Publisher: Da Capo Pr

Summary

In this biography of a dashing, brash young Churchill, Celia Sandys reconstructs her celebrated grandfather's adventures as a correspondent and combatant during nine months of the Anglo-Boer War at the end of the last centuryevents that took him from the bivouacs and battle sites of Transvaal to his incarceration as a prisoner of war in Pretoria and ultimately to a bold escape across the border into Mozambique. Using both British and South African sources of testimony, which alternately reveal the dauntless Winston as a courageous ally or foolhardy foe, Sandys recounts the exploits of a Churchill whom history has largely forgotten. With narrative vigor, historical authority, and singular charm, she offers both a fully drawn portrait of the ready adventurer who would become England's legendary prime minister and an illuminating chronicle of the turbulent events one hundred years ago that defined South Africa for modern times.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
List of Maps	xiii
Acknowledgements	xv
Preface	xxi
Prologue	xxv
Gateway	1	(8)
Preparing for War	9	(12)
Cruising to a Catastrophe	21	(11)
The Station Yard	32	(12)
Knight Errant	44	(14)
The Botha Legend	58	(5)
Into Captivity	63	(17)
The States Model School	80	(19)
Controversy	99	(17)
Wanted Dead or Alive	116	(17)
A Soldier Again	133	(16)
A General on Spion Kop	149	(18)
Into Ladysmith	167	(14)
A Lull in the Storm	181	(11)
Return to Pretoria	192	(17)
Epilogue: A Triumphal Progress	209	(8)
Reference Notes	217	(6)
Bibliography	223	(4)
Index	227