1. Sir Winston Churchill was a British war leader, statesman, painter and writer whom some have labelled as the greatest man ever to speak in the English language. But many call
him the greatest English man of the present century. Born in 1874 in the lap of American
Jannie Jarome, Churchill was a descendent of the great Duke of Marlborough. Like many
men destined for greatness, Winston hated school, did badly at it and only just managed
to scrape into a career, in his case the army. He fought in Cuba, in India with Kitchener in
Egypt.
2. Then he went to South Africa in the Boer War as a War Correspondent. While in India, he
taught himself to write good prose and developed a grand masterly style which captured
the greatness of his times. In South Africa, he was captured, escaped on a train with a
price on his head and returned to England as a hero. But it was not so easy for him. He
had to face so many odds in his life.