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Informationen zum Autor Celia Sandys is a granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill and the author of From Winston with Love and Kisses: The Young Churchill and Churchill Wanted: Dead or Alive . She lectures widely in the U.S. and Britain. She lives in Wiltshire, England. Klappentext From Winston Churchill's granddaughter comes an anecdotal history that retraces his journeys across four continents and 70 years and offers glimpses into the great man's soul. Vorwort From Winston Churchill's granddaughter, an anecdotal history that retraces his journeys across four continents and seventy years and retrieves glimpses into the great man's soul Zusammenfassung Sir Winston Churchill was a well-traveled man. By the time he was twenty-five, his thirst for adventure had taken him to Cuba, India's North-West frontier, the Sudan, and South Africa, as well as to battle, prison, and worldwide fame. During World War II, when as prime minister he held Britain's destiny in his hands, he hazarded arduous journeys not only to confer face-to-face with his allies Roosevelt and Stalin, but also to witness firsthand the action at the front. In later years, his enduring passion for painting prompted travels to locales like Marrakech. (He took President Roosevelt there in 1943, simply to view a splendid sunset.) Celia Sandys actually accompanied her famous grandfather on some of his later travels, most memorably on a cruise aboard Aristotle Onassis's yacht Christina, but for this always-engaging book she herself has retraced his many journeys over seventy years on four continents, and sought the people who knew, entertained, consulted, or simply crossed paths with him. In their long-untold stories she finds her grandfather's character illuminated in new, revealing, and often surprising ways.
