Dall’Avana a Durban

Year: 2005 Pages: 234 In publishing his youthful memories, Winston Churchill, already almost sixty years old, wrote: “I would have preferred to be an apprentice bricklayer or a delivery boy, or to help my father install a grocery store window. It would have been real life...". Instead, the son of a lord and destined for a military career, he was given an almost unreal existence, so daring were the adventures that took him around the world. This book collects the pages in which the mature statesman recalls with humor and freshness the reckless years of his youth, from a military mission in Cuba to expeditions in all corners of the British Empire, with night marches, ambushes and cavalry charges, up to on his escape from a prison camp in South Africa during the Anglo-Borian War which he went to document as a journalist.