My Early Life

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Nu s-a remarcat cu aproape nimic deosebit în copilăria sa, defapt, chiar opusul, era codaș în mai multe domenii, și mi-a fost greu să înțeleg cum a putut deveni omul care s-a remarcat atât de mult în a doua parte a vieții. Even though it reads much like an adventure story (by the time he was 25 he had been in 4 different wars on several continents), it also contains nuggets of wisdom. He felt this was a disadvantage but he was highly ambitious and his family's political connections more than compensated for his lack of an Oxford or Cambridge pedigree. Of this place I can give very clear descriptions, though I have never been there since I was four or four and a half.

Keista, kad apie būsimą žmoną, susižavėjimą ja, gimstančią meilę, apsisprendimą tuoktis – knygoje nieko!

Whenever I see anyone use irony in an internet article today, they are immediately assailed by scores if not hundreds of people who have taken the wording literally.

Upon rolling out, we are delivered to parts of the empire as diverse as India, Egypt, Sudan and South Africa where he served jointly as an officer and reporter. Housed in a burgundy quarter morocco solander box, spine lettered in gilt and decorated with a lion centre tool.

Two states of the first edition, first printing are identified, with a list of either 11 or 12 Churchill titles in the boxed list of "Works by the same Author" on the half title verso. Vignettes of interest:- his correspondence with Mr Winston Churchill of Boston who was writing at the same time, his political mentors of the early 20th Century such as Salisbury and the generals that he knew in Britain's colonial skirmishes. I am, however, fascinated with him (especially his role in WWII) and the wildly changing times he straddled.

He wrote, "She had been my dearest and most intimate friend during the whole of the twenty years I had lived.He was extremely dissatisfied and in due course I received from him a long and very severe letter expressing the bleakest view of my educational career, showing a marked lack of appreciation at my success in the examination, which he suggested I had only scraped through, and warning me of the danger in which I plainly lay of becoming a ‘social wastrel! It must have been very laborious, even if you were brought up to it; but no doubt it gave the Romans, and the Greeks too, a fine and easy way of establishing their posthumous fame. Such was my first introduction to the classics from which, I have been told, many of our cleverest men have derived so much solace and profit. Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on that strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.