Sailing to South Africa in 1899 as a correspondent for the Morning Post, the twenty-five-year-old Churchill was captured when an armoured train was ambushed in Natal, held prisoner in Pretoria, and escaped. These letters cover his imprisonment, his flight to Portuguese territory, and his return to follow Sir Redvers Buller’s long campaign to relieve Ladysmith.
The adventure that first made Churchill famous, told in his own vivid early prose. Download the free EPUB.