Winston Churchill: The Making of a Hero in the South African War
Eric Bolsman
Publisher Galago (South Africa) 2008
Paperback: 268 pages - 16 pages black and white and colour pictures
Our Price £27.95 +p&p
One of the greatest talents that Winston Churchill was blessed with with was his extraordinary command of the English language. He would go on to write a prodigious 65 books in his lifetime.
He was rewarded for this in 1953 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Yet in Britain his abilities as a writer were already widely recognised by the end of the 19th century.
Yet oddly enough he had not excelled academically at school and it was only on his third attempt that he passed the entrance examination to the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst .
This is the story of his bravery while with the British Army in South Africa as a war correspondent and as a Special Service officer for which he was much acclaimed. It is essential reading for Students of the Boer War.