“MY EARLY LIFE” RETURNS

The scholar and the publisher who together returned Winston Churchill’s The River War to us five years ago, richly annotated and fully restored to its original unabridged, two-volume fecundity, are back with a new title, Churchill’s beloved MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission, his only volume of personal memoirs.

Unlike The River War, MY EARLY LIFE has never been out of print. It is the first book by Winston Churchill that we recommend reading in order to get to know him. Published in October 1930 to laudatory reviews and strong sales, MY EARLY LIFE: A Roving Commission, remains Churchill’s most delightfully readable book, a revealing window into the man that Winston Churchill grew up to be, overcoming the tribulations of a childhood that was often decidedly painful. MY EARLY LIFE is a testimony to Winston Churchill’s greatest personal attribute: Resiliency.

An added bonus in this MY EARLY LIFE edition is the addition of Churchill’s ethereal autobiographical short story, “The Dream,” first published by The Daily Telegraph in 1966. One of his few works of fiction, “The Dream” is a Churchillian ghost story in which the shade of Churchill’s father, Randolph, appears to him in 1947. The son reviews for his father all that has happened to the world since Randolph Churchill died in 1895 without ever revealing the central role that he himself played in these cataclysmic events.

Like The River War reissue, MY EARLY LIFE has been annotated by Churchill scholar James W. Muller — Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Alaska, Anchorage; Chairman of the Board of Academic Advisers of the International Churchill Society; and a by-fellow of Churchill College,  Cambridge. It is published by St. Augustine’s Press, re-issuer of The River War.

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