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    Winston Churchill: The Life, Lessons & Rules for Success
    Winston Churchill: The Life, Lessons & Rules for Success
    Winston Churchill: The Life, Lessons & Rules for Success
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    Winston Churchill: The Life, Lessons & Rules for Success

    By Jack Morris

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    Physically below average, accident prone and a speech impediment. These are not qualities that would ordinarily produce one of the greatest leaders in modern history, fortunately Churchill was no ordinary man.
    Many know Winston Churchill from his exceptional leadership during the Second World War. That is only part of the story. Churchill has much to teach us, whether you are in politics or not.
    From a Nobel Prize in literature, to pop charts, to artist, Winston Churchill has contributed more to society than just his famed political career. As he once said, "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." And he did, and it is.
     

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    • Churchill's Early Years
    • Churchill's Role Throughout WW1 & WW2
    • How Churchill Overcame Great Difficulties
    • Some Of The Greatest Speeches Ever Written
    • Churchill's 10 Rules For Success
    • Little Known Facts
    • Much, Much More!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Farrington
    Release dateSep 18, 2018
    ISBN9781386938651
    Winston Churchill: The Life, Lessons & Rules for Success

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      Winston Churchill - Jack Morris

      Introduction

      From schoolboy failure to wartime hero, Winston Churchill had an astonishing life ensuring his place in history. It is no secret Churchill had a passion for war, as a young officer he served in British India, the Anglo Sudan War and the Second Boer War. From being captured as a prisoner of war whilst in Africa, he escaped to safety becoming a minor national hero in the process. From relative failure through his role in World War I to commanding Great Britain out of their darkest hour and eventually onto victory during World War II, there can be no doubt of the tenacity shown by the man during what can only be described as an extremely eventful and interesting life.

      On the frontline of politics for more than 50 years, Churchill held a variety of political and cabinet positions. Serving as Prime Minister on two separate occasions, his radio broadcasts and speeches were instrumental in inspiring the British Resistance during the difficult times of 1940-41 when the British Empire stood almost alone in resisting Hitler’s Nazi Germany. It is quite easy to see why in a 2002 poll; Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was named the ‘Greatest Briton’ of all time.

      Chapter 1: Family and Early Life

      As an adult, he collected all kinds of titles from the military, from the government, and from his grateful countrymen – but as a child, he was just Winston Leonard, born on November 30, 1874, the first son of Lord Randolph Churchill and Jeanette Jennie Jerome. He was born in a suite of rooms contained within the heart of Blenheim Palace, the great country house and principal residence of the Dukes of Marlborough.

      Wealth, power, and privilege surrounded Winston practically from the moment that he was born. His father, Lord Randolph, was the third-born son of the 7th Duke of Marlborough, who by the time of his first son’s birth had become a by-name in British politics through his promotion of the ideals of progressive Conservatism. He felt that the Tories should support and promulgate popular reforms instead of opposing them, and he used his charisma and his talent for making speeches to promote that agenda throughout his political career.

      Although Lord Randolph was not on the track to inherit his family’s noble titles, he could still partake of the immense prestige and respect accorded them. It could be said that he belonged to a high-born family indeed; well before Winston was born, the Dukes of Marlborough – whose very line had begun with John Churchill, one of the first generals of the British Army – had married into the equally noble and esteemed Spencer family, meaning that their descendants could take the formidable double-barreled surname of Spencer-Churchill. However, for simplicity’s sake, Lord Randolph, and his sons after him, were all referred to by the last name of Churchill throughout their lives.

      His mother, Jennie, was similarly born with a silver spoon in her mouth. She was the eldest daughter of the New York stock-market speculator, yachtsman, horse-race aficionado, and financier Leonard Jerome. In the eyes of American society at that time, that placed her on an equal footing with the hereditary noble families of Europe. The family’s immense wealth allowed her and her sisters to become well-known socialites on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. She had been introduced to Lord Randolph Churchill by no less than the future king Edward VII, and was well-known for her wit and beauty.

      Winston spent part of his childhood in Dublin; at the time, his paternal grandfather, the 7th Duke of Marlborough, was serving as the Viceroy of Ireland, and had taken his son (Winston’s father) on as his private secretary. Some historians and biographers have since claimed that Winston’s interest in military matters may have had its roots in the many parades and ceremonies that would take place around the Viceroy’s residence.

      It was the common practice among the middle and upper classes at the time for the parents to have little to no hand in their children’s upbringing, and Winston’s parents did not see fit to deviate from that practice. In Dublin, it was a governess, not his parents, who taught him the traditional three R’s (reading, writing, and ’rithmetic). His emotions and childhood interests, too, were spent with someone who wasn’t connected to the family by blood ties: his nanny, Elizabeth Ann Everest. She became a permanent presence

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