{"product_id":"9781623490676","title":"Churchill Wanted Dead or Alive","description":"\u003cp\u003eCelia Sandys goes 'in grandfather's footsteps' to retrace young Winston Churchill's adventures during nine months of the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa - where Churchill served as war correspondent, combatant (at Spion Kop and Ladysmith), prisoner-of-war and escapee. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCelia Sandys has uncovered a hitherto neglected part of Churchill's life using many previously untapped sources and giving many hitherto unknown facts and anecdotes. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1899, within two weeks of his arrival in South Africa to cover the Boer War as a journalist for London's Morning Post, the twenty-four-year-old Churchill was taken prisoner when his train was ambushed by a Boer patrol. Churchill first enabled most of his companions to escape to safety before he himself was captured and taken to Pretoria, his daring escape prompting a massive manhunt. Evading recapture by taking refuge in a coalmine, then hiding in a goods wagon, his exploits propelled him overnight on to the international stage. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOne hundred years after these events Celia Sandys followed in her grandfather's footsteps, visiting campsites, battlefields, the site of his incarceration in Pretoria, and the route of his escape, uncovering a host of fascinating details about this tumultuous period in his early life. Churchill Wanted Dead or Alive is both a thrilling adventure story and a unique insight into the life of a young man who went on to become one of his country's greatest leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Texas A \u0026 M University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45517127319631,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":873.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9781623490676","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}