»Ich hatte einen herrlichen Monat - ich habe ein Häuschen gebaut und ein Buch diktiert: 200 Ziegelsteine und 2000 Wörter am Tag«, erzählte Churchill Stanley Baldwin über seine Parlamentsferien 1928. Entstanden ist ein Buch, in dem die Erzählfreude des Autors auf jeder Seite spürbar ist: Churchills Erinnerungen an seine ersten dreißig Lebensjahre, geschrieben aus einer »jeweils meinem Lebensalter angemessenen Sichtweise«. Tatsächlich schönt Churchill nichts - weder seine miserablen Leistungen in der Schule noch seine peinliche Kriegsbegeisterung an der Militärakademie. Umso...

This work is an engaging story about a Celebrity whose actions don't align with what he publishes. John Crocker was the friend of a celebrity long before he became famous. During a summer retreat at Asquith resort, he runs into the celebrity who has taken another man's identity to remain anonymous. The celebrity meets Irene Trevor, the daughter of an Ohio state senator, and proposes to her to marry him, and she happily accepts. When Marian Thorn, a female he finds more alluring, arrives at Asquith, the celebrity leaves Miss Trevor without breaking off the engagement. This behavior was against...

A Traveller in War-Time is a non-fiction work by American author Winston Churchill that recounts his travels in Europe during the First World War. It contains a number of articles concerning his observations as a journalist and soldier and shows his keen eye for nuance and details. It conveys to American readers an idea of the conditions in Great Britain and France under the direct shadow of the battle clouds. The book is an insightful collection of actual accounts of wartime realities. The accuracy with which Churchill delivered the narratives makes this work an essential addition to the...

The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War is a book by Winston Churchill. It portrays a military battle by British armed forces on the North West Frontier (now western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan) in 1897.

Richard Carvel is a historical novel by the American novelist Winston Churchill, presented interestingly in the form of memoirs of an eighteenth-century stubborn and quick-tempered young man, Richard Carvel. He grew up with his grandfather, a wealthy man from Maryland and faithful to King George. But Richard's sympathies are with the people of the colonies who are unhappy about England's behavior towards them. It is set partly in Maryland and partly in London, England, during the American revolutionary era. First published in 1899 this eight-volume novel was a great hit immediately and sold...

Richard Carvel is a historical novel by the American novelist Winston Churchill, presented interestingly in the form of memoirs of an eighteenth-century stubborn and quick-tempered young man, Richard Carvel. He grew up with his grandfather, a wealthy man from Maryland and faithful to King George. But Richard's sympathies are with the people of the colonies who are unhappy about England's behavior towards them. It is set partly in Maryland and partly in London, England, during the American revolutionary era. First published in 1899 this eight-volume novel was a great hit immediately and sold...

A Traveller in War-Time is a non-fiction work by American author Winston Churchill that recounts his travels in Europe during the First World War. It contains a number of articles concerning his observations as a journalist and soldier and shows his keen eye for nuance and details. It conveys to American readers an idea of the conditions in Great Britain and France under the direct shadow of the battle clouds. The book is an insightful collection of actual accounts of wartime realities. The accuracy with which Churchill delivered the narratives makes this work an essential addition to the...

The novel is mostly set in the town of St. Louis, in the divided state of Missouri. It follows the fortunes of young Stephen Brice, a man with Union and abolitionist sympathies, and his involvement with a Southern family. The crisis of the title is provoked by Abraham Lincoln's opposition to the extension of slavery, and the power of his personal integrity to win people to his cause, including the young lawyer Brice, who becomes a devoted admirer and proponent following a personal interview on the eve of the Freeport debate between Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. As a home town of Ulysses Grant...

This work is an engaging story about a Celebrity whose actions don't align with what he publishes. John Crocker was the friend of a celebrity long before he became famous. During a summer retreat at Asquith resort, he runs into the celebrity who has taken another man's identity to remain anonymous. The celebrity meets Irene Trevor, the daughter of an Ohio state senator, and proposes to her to marry him, and she happily accepts. When Marian Thorn, a female he finds more alluring, arrives at Asquith, the celebrity leaves Miss Trevor without breaking off the engagement. This behavior was against...