Churchill Wanted Dead or Alive - By his Granddaughter Celia Sandys

In this lively biography of a dashing, brash twenty-five-year-old Churchill, Celia Sandys chronicles her celebrated grandfathers adventures as a correspondent and combatant during nine months of the Anglo-Boer Warevents that took him from the bivouacs and battle sites of Transvaal to his incarceration as a prisoner of war in Pretoria and ultimately to a bold escape across the border into Mozambique.

Using both British and South African sources of testimony, which reveal the dauntless Winston alternately as a courageous ally or foolhardy foe, Sandys recounts the exploits of a Churchill that history has largely forgotten. With historical authority, narrative vigor, and singular charm, she offers both a fully drawn portrait of the ready adventurer who would become Englands legendary prime minister and an illuminating account of the turbulent events that defined South Africa for modern times.

1999 hardcover with dust jacket and 233 pages new and unread.