Early Promise

FOLLOWING on from reading Peter Fleming's One's Company, I got stuck into a charity-shop find, Winston Churchill's My Early Life.

An Eland reprint, picked up for £2.49 in Oxfam's Bethnal Green Road outlet, London E1

It is an old-fashioned tale of derring-do that reads like an over-the-top Boy's Own tale, and yet it is all true, or, at least, is Churchill's version of the truth.

From skirmishes in India, to a cavalry charge at the Battle of Omdurman, to fighting Boers (and escaping from a Boer prisoner-of-war camp), Churchill did it, and he tells the stories with a verve that makes for intoxicating reading.

I hope to read much more by Churchill, curtesy, more than likely. of Amazon.