Winston Churchill began his career as a junior officer and war correspondent in the North West borderlands of British India, and this experience was the beginning of his long relationship with the Islamic world.
Overturning the widely-accepted consensus that Churchill was indifferent to, and even contemptuous of, matters concerning the Middle East, this book unravels Churchill s nuanced understanding of the edges of the British Empire. Warren Dockter analyses the future Prime Minister s experiences of the East, including his work as Colonial Under-Secretary in the early 1900s, his...
Winston Churchill began his career as a junior officer and war correspondent in the North West borderlands of British India, and this experience wa...