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#337: Journalist Winston Goes to Boer War
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Host Dennis Leap discusses the significance of Chapter 5, “Send Her Victorious,” in Candice Millard’s book Hero of the Empire. Winston Churchill does not go to the Boer War in South Africa as a solider but as a well-paid journalist to keep Britons informed of events in the Transvaal. He shared this experience with other famous authors such as Daily Mail writer Edgar Wallace, Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle.
123 episodes
Manage episode 430206540 series 2393450
Host Dennis Leap discusses the significance of Chapter 5, “Send Her Victorious,” in Candice Millard’s book Hero of the Empire. Winston Churchill does not go to the Boer War in South Africa as a solider but as a well-paid journalist to keep Britons informed of events in the Transvaal. He shared this experience with other famous authors such as Daily Mail writer Edgar Wallace, Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle.
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