CHASING CHURCHILL: THE TRAVELS OF WINSTON CHURCHILL BY HIS GRANDDAUGHTER

Book ID/图书代码： 06040004B08143

English Summary/英文概要： An anecdotal history of Winston Churchill’s foreign journeys -- for journalistic, political or holiday purposes, and in war and peace -- as told by his granddaughter Celia Sandys, who travels in his footsteps. With all his other remarkable achievements, it is easy to overlook the fact that throughout his long life Winston Churchill was an indefatigable foreign traveller. As a young man, his thirst for fame and adventure took him to Cuba, the North-West Frontier, the Sudan and South Africa. He experienced battle at close quarters, was taken prisoner, and made a daring escape which brought him worldwide fame at the age of twenty-five. As Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies and then as First Lord of the Admiralty he became perhaps the best-travelled British politician of his time, his unquenchable energy exhausting a succession of aides. Even during World War II, when he held his nation’s destiny in his hands, there was little diminution in Churchill’s foreign travel, as he made uncomfortable and hazardous journeys for face-to-face meetings with allies such as Roosevelt and Stalin, or to witness at first hand the progress of the conflict. Perhaps above all there was his lifelong love affair with the United States, the country of his mother’s birth, to which he made repeated visits. In later years his growing passion for painting provided the impetus for other travels. His granddaughter Celia Sandys accompanied him on some of these late journeys, including a memorable cruise on Aristotle Onassis’s yacht, and on his very last foreign trip. Now she traces her grandfather’s footsteps across four continents. Wherever she goes, she finds people who knew, entertained or simply crossed paths with him. Many of them, she discovers, have stories which have never been told before, and which illuminate Churchill’s character in unexpected and often surprising ways. ’Chasing Churchill’ is a fascinating and entertaining insight into an important but often neglected aspect of Winston Churchill’s life, and an engaging record of a unique quest.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 温斯顿-丘吉尔一生喜爱旅游。年轻时，为求出名和冒险，他就到过古巴，苏丹和南非等地。25岁时，他在作战中被俘，又勇敢逃脱的故事使他享有盛名。他在殖民地当官时和担任海军部长时，出游的劲头令助手们生畏。第二次世界大战中，他也到过好多地方，如出国与盟国首脑会谈。到美国的次数就更多了。晚年时，他迷上了画画，常到法国南部，意大利，摩洛哥和马德拉群岛去。作者是邱吉尔的外孙女，曾陪他到过不少地方。

Awards/获奖情况：’Original and hugely entertaining!one of the most evocative and engaging books on Churchill I’ve ever read.’ Andrew Roberts, Mail on Sunday ’Sandys’ revealing insights into Churchill’s character would be reward enough for this absorbing work; her engaging style and lightness of touch make it a double delight.’---Yorkshire Evening Post

About the Author/作者介绍： Celia Sandys is a granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill. Her mother was Churchill’s eldest daughter, Diana, and her father Lord Duncan-Sandys, the former cabinet minister and member of his father-in-law’s wartime government. She is married, has four children and lives in Wiltshire. She is the author of From Winston With Love and Kisses: The Young Churchill (Sinclair Stevenson 1994) and Churchill Wanted Dead or Alive (HarperCollins hb1999; pbk 2000). She has lectured in America, Canada, Japan and Britain.

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