| The Story of the Malakand Field Force by Winston S. Churchill, World and Miltary History Contributor(s): Churchill, Winston S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0809595605 ISBN-13: 9780809595600 Publisher: Wildside Press OUR PRICE: $39.85 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2004 Annotation: While I was attached to the Malakand Field Force I wrote a series of letters for the London DAILY TELEGRAPH. The favorable manner in which these letters were received, encouraged me to attempt a more substantial work. This volume is the result. -- WC |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 800 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.23 lbs) 276 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles - Cultural Region - Indian |
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| Publisher Description: While I was attached to the Malakand Field Force I wrote a series of letters for the London Daily Telegraph. The favorable manner in which these letters were received, encouraged me to attempt a more substantial work. This volume is the result. The original letters have been broken up, and I have freely availed myself of all passages, phrases, and facts, that seemed appropriate. The views they contained have not been altered, though several opinions and expressions, which seemed mild in the invigorating atmosphere of a camp, have been modified, to suit the more temperate climate of peace. -- Sir Winston S. Churchill |
Contributor Bio(s): Churchill, Sir Winston S.: - "Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 - 1965) was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a non-academic historian, a writer (as Winston S. Churchill) and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his overall, lifetime body of work. In 1963, he was the first of only eight people to be made an honorary citizen of the United States. In addition to his careers of soldier and politician, he was a prolific writer under the pen name "Winston S. Churchill." After being commissioned into the 4th Queen's Own Hussars in 1895, Churchill gained permission to observe the Cuban War of Independence and sent war reports to The Daily Graphic. He continued his war journalism in British India, at the Siege of Malakand, then in the Sudan during the Mahdist War and in southern Africa during the Second Boer War." |