The Last Lion, the cub version
It is hard to do simple blog on a man who lead such a full life that the best Biography on Winston Churchill is two volumes, and over 2,000 pages and ends at the start of World War II. If you are interested in Winston Churchill I highly recommend the Two Volume Set titled The Last Lion. The books, written by William Manchester are simply the best reading on Churchill that I have found. I have read, or started to read many other accounts of his life but they have all paled to the magnificent work of Manchester. William Manchester's The Last Lion lives up to the man that is the subject.
Winston Churchill was born in 1874, he had a rather slow start on his road to being a tungsten man.
His early childhood was spent in a sickly state. He was raised not by loving parents but by servants (nanny) and his early years were spent seeking the attention of his mother. His mother was an American, married to a gifted but unstable son of a English Duke. Winston's mother was known be promiscuous party lover who had little time for Winston. His father had none, and is thought to have not even have liked his child.
Winston was sent away to harsh boarding school at an early age and was the subject of much abuse by the headmaster as well as the other children. As a child he was weak, spoke with a lisp and had the hands of a girl.. He was ridiculed, beat and pelted with cricket balls. To see Winston at this age, it would be impossible to imagine the man who would later emerge to save England in her darkest hour. Tungsten Men are made early.
At Age 7, Winston deliberately set out to change his own character and under took a task to fight his on biology, as Manchester writes to prove that biology need not be destiny.
1893 Churchill wrote 'I am cursed with so feeble a body, that I can hardly support the fatigues of the day' - Churchill would overcome this feeble body. - A tungsten man forged of life.
Some of Churchill's Major Tungsten Man Accomplishments -
Elected to Parliament as a Conservative in 1900
Joined the Liberal Party and became the president of the Board of Trade in 1904
Under Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1906-08
Served in the military in France during World War I
After being captured in the Boer war, hee scaped from the Boers across 300 miles of enemy territory
Secretary of War 1918-21
Chancellor of the Exchequer 1924-29
Served as First Lord of Admiralty when World War II broke out
Prime Minister from 1940-45 and 1951-55
Set the groundwork for the birth of Israel
His six volume history of World War II earned him a Nobel Prise for Litterature
Was Knighted in 1953
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