#319 The Making of Winston Churchill Part 1

Although he was still a very young man, Churchill was no stranger to situations of great personal peril. He had already taken part in four wars. on three different continents and had come close to death in each one. He had felt bullets whistling by his head in Cuba. And saw his friends hacked to death.

In British India. Although he had tried again and again in war after war to win glory. Churchill had returned home every time without the medals that mattered. No more distinguished or famous than he had been when he set out. The Boer War, he believed, was his best chance to change that.

To prove that he was not just the son of a famous man. He was special. Even extraordinary. And he was meant not just to fight for his country, but one day To lead it.

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