<p>Few people realize that Winston Churchill's fame began with the name he made for himself as a war correspondent during the years of Britain's last imperial wars. Beginning 1897 and continuing for about 3 years thereafter, he sent electrifying and unusual despatches to two London morning papers from the front lines of battle at the Northwest Frontier in India, where he had found service with the Bengal Lancers; from General Kitchener's campaign to resubjugate the "whirling" Dervishes in the Sudan; and from the height of the Boer War in South Africa. Churchill's brilliant and fluent writing, infused with immediacy and the genuine excitement of a soldier at the front, earned him a place beside the most famous correspondents of the era. But he never forgot his political ambitions. Time and again he intruded on his own reports with comments which went far beyond the normal scope of war correspondence, the rolling Churchillian perorations ringing sonorously from the tightly packed columns of type. Aided by an unexpected journalist bonus provided by his capture and subsequent escape from the Boers, Churchill returned to England the most glamorous national figure of the day and won a seat in the House of Commons at the age of 25. In YOUNG WINSTON'S WARS Frederick Woods has brought together the raw material from which the hero and legend grew. Churchill's original despatches from India and the Sudan, which he used as the basis for two of his earliest books, THE MALAKAND FIELD FORCE and THE RIVER WAR, have never been reprinted until now; those from the Boer War, which Mr. Woods cites as "a major landmark in the field of war journalism", have long been unavailable. They tell of a type of warfare now extinct - including the use of cavalry - and contain Churchill's account of the charge of the 21st Lancers. They also tell a good deal about young Winston himself and project an especially vivid picture of ware from the soldier's point of view.</p>

Young Winston's Wars: The Original Despatches of Winston S. Churchill War Correspondent, 1897-1900

History

Woods, Frederick

Africa

The Viking Press

A bibliography of the works of Sir Winston Churchill: KG, OM, CH

Reference

Kaye & Ward

A bibliography of the works of Sir Winston Churchill,: K.G., O.M., C.H

University of Toronto Press

During his long lifetime, Sir Winston Churchill wrote fifty books and over 800 feature articles. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. Remarkably, until now no serious study has been made of this voluminous and prestigious output.Frederick Woods, an internationally acknowledged expert in the field of Churchillian writings, here presents the first full-length appraisal, not only as a matter of literary criticism, but also considering the writings in the context of Churchill's public life.Almost all Churchill's publications, argues Mr Woods, were weapons written deliberately to win a battle, whether that battle was over the future of India, the fate of the freedom-loving world, the rehabilitation of renowned ancestors, or his own fluctuating reputation. In every case Churchill strove mightily to win, and often presented his case with less than the objectivity of one popularly considered to be a major historian.Artillery of Words is not only an illuminating and often witty analysis of Churchill's writings; it is also an important and revealing contribution to Churchillian studies in general.Mr Woods's Bibliography of the Works of Sir Winston Churchill, first published in 1963, has been described by Churchill's official biographer, Martin Gilbert, as revealing 'a mastery both of research and presentation'. This new book possesses the same qualities.

Artillery of Words: The Writings of Sir Winston Churchill

Europe

Leo Cooper

Excerpt from Higher Geometry: An Introduction to Advanced Methods in Analytic GeometryThe present book is the outgrowth of lectures given at various times to students of the later undergraduate and earlier graduate years. It aims to present some of the general concepts and methods which are necessary for advanced work in algebraic geometry (as distinguished from differential geometry), but which are not now accessible to the student in any one volume, and thus to bridge the gap between the. usual text in analytic geometry and treatises or articles on special topics.With this object in view the author has assumed very little mathematical preparation on the part of the student beyond that acquired in elementary courses in calculus and plane analytic geometry. In addition it has been necessary to assume a slight knowledge of determinants, especially as applied to the solution of linear equations, such as may be acquired in a very short course on the subject. But it has not been assumed that the student has had a course in higher algebra, including matrices, linear substitutions, invariants, and similar topics, and no effort has been made to include a discussion of these subjects in the text. This restriction in the tools to be used necessitates at times modes of expression and methods of proof which are a little cumbersome, but the appeal to a larger number of readers seems to justify the occasional lack of elegance.In preparing the text one of the greatest problems has consisted in determining what matters to exclude. It is-obvious that an introduction to geometry cannot contain all that is known on any subject or even refer briefly to all general topics. The matter of selection is necessarily one of individual judgment. One large domain of geometry has been definitely excluded from the plan of the book; namely, that of differential geometry. In the field which is left the author cannot dare to hope that his choice of material will agree exactly with that which would be made by any other teacher. He hopes, however, that his choice has been sufficiently wise to make the book useful to many besides himself.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Higher Geometry

Applewood Books

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