Winston Churchill was a dashing war correspondent

Most of us know of the indomitable Winston Churchill, who led Britain during World War II.

But Candice Millard’s new book, Hero Of The Empire: The Boer War, A Daring Escape, And The Making Of Winston Churchill (Random House), shows how the young Churchill’s military adventures in South Africa, at the impressionable age of 24, prepared him for the later challenge of leading a nation at war while serving as Britain’s PM.