For many great literary figures, a first book is like a declaration of principles, a bugle call with resonances that echo for posterity yet can be scarcely audible at the time of publication.
That was my main takeaway from reading this, the earliest book by one of the most famous figures of his century, published even before that century had begun.
Winston
Spencer Churchill was many things in a lifetime so packed with incident he was
very nearly of retirement age before he got around to doing the stuff people
best remember him for.
