From The New York Times bestselling author, the gripping story of Winston Churchill's exploits in the Boer War.
Candice Millard is the author of The New York Times bestsellers The River of Doubt and Destiny of the Republic. She lives in Kansas City with her husband and three children.
Completely engrossing
*Andrew Roberts*
Using many unpublished sources, she weaves into a nail-biting
escape story a larger picture of Africa at the cusp of the 20th
century. Her eye for humanising detail, her vivid topographical
descriptions and her keen awareness of the realities (and
surrealities) of war come together in a truly fascinating book.
*Financial Times*
A gripping story [that] casts an interestingly oblique light on
Churchill's personality, and on a traumatic war.
*Observer*
This is a tremendously readable and enjoyable book ... She aims to
retell the story in a thrilling contemporary style for a generation
of readers, and in this she succeeds. Most historians will have
cause to envy her narrative ability.
*The New York Times Book Review*
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