Totuși, poate chiar acesta e secretul, banalitatea și normalitatea care au constituit o bază sănătoasă pe care a putut să construiască mai apoi echilibrat, exploatându-și potențialul, trăsături de caracter precum curajul, asumarea riscurilor și spiritul de lider, care se observă treptat spre finalul cărții. Our preparations were by no means completed when the fateful hour struck and the Governess was due to arrive. Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on that strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. There is little more I can say that is not said better by either Churchill himself or the many scholars who have studied him for decades. Susidarė įspūdis, kad ši knyga labiau skirta Anglijos skaitytojams, bet negalima ignoruoti ir to, kad ji gali paskatinti kitų šalių skaitytojus susidomėti Didžiosios Britanijos XIX amžiaus pabaigos ir XX amžiaus pradžios istorija, apie kurią ne tiek jau daug žinome.

I Winstons unge år deltager han som officer og journalist i flere mindre krige hvor England er involveret. The idea that nothing is true except what we comprehend is silly, and that ideas which our minds cannot reconcile are mutually destructive, sillier still. Presentation copy from Churchill, inscribed by him on the front free endpaper to the wife of Frederick Raven, who served as his butler and valet for nine months: "To Mrs Raven from Winston S.Even though it reads much like an adventure story (by the time he was 25 he had been in 4 different wars on several continents), it also contains nuggets of wisdom. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. As we all know, in 1930 Churchill had no idea that his greatest trials and triumphs still lay before him. He emphasizes that he was ambitious and got ahead through force of will (though Churchill does mention the numerous connections obtained through mom and dad along the way).

His father would have approved, perhaps placing his hand on his son’s head and quietly remarking, “Good job. He describes how he became proficient in writing and speaking English, as he has three terms of a course under an excellent teacher of English; had he been a more successful student by the standards of schools of his youth, he would have learned Latin and Greek instead. Everyone round me seemed much upset about it, and I thought how lucky it was the Fenians had not got me when I fell off the donkey.I found this to be a very well written memoir, filled with whit and humour which made it highly readable and engaging.