[N]ext time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some coup. Besides I shall have some other motive for taking chances than merely "love of adventure".

Leaving Harrow, after three years in the Army Class at Harrow School, Churchill went to a ‘crammer’ to help him pass the entrance exam to Sandhurst He eventually passed on the...

In January 1911 Churchill provoked further controversy as a result of his decision to personally oversee the police’s attempts to capture a group of Latvian anarchists, led by ‘Peter the Painter’,...

Dr Warren Dockter (University of Cambridge) and Professor Richard Toye (University of Exeter) discuss Winston Churchill’s book The River War https://wwwyoutubecom/embed/3Bq3lrsfYMk?list=PLVRJoyIOeaRK4eDDCZ_GOgIAXWOcRtmf- copyright: Dr Warren Dockter and Professor Richard Toye...

The reward poster issued for the recapture of ‘the escaped prisioner [sic] of war’, ‘dead or alive’ copyright: Churchill Archives Centre, Broadwater Collection...