His father, Lord Randolph Churchill, had served as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Winston Churchill was born into a life of privilege. There are moments reading Millard's heart-pounding tale of war, imprisonment and escape when you have to stop and remind yourself this is actually a work of historical nonfiction. Or perhaps, to put it another way, you might want to think of Hero of the Empire as sort of a Victorian version of a Jason Bourne plot. Then again, it ain't so stupid if everything works out. And that is the prevailing theme of Hero of the Empire, Candice Millard's fascinating account of the younger Churchill's incredible adventures during the Boer War, when the man was young and handsome and obsessed with establishing a reputation for gallantry - to the point of foolhardiness - in the line of fire.
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