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    <body><![CDATA[Churcill's memoir about his early life and his finding his major loves--books and battles--in his twenties read by me in my twenties.<br/><br/><br/>Churchill was a good writer show showed that words properly used could change the world.<br/>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[By the age of 26, Winston Churchill had fought in Sudan, India (now Pakistan), and South Africa, particpated in an old-fashioned cavalry charge, escaped from a Boer POW camp, and got himself elected to the House of Commons - and this is all before WWII, the period of his life that he's so well known...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33897088">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A very lively account the first 30 years of Churchill's life.  He is sometimes witty and his writing is always first rate.  There were some points where he got into Victorian British politics or military actions that he obviously expected the reader to know something about, which I didn't, but overa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19148234">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It did take me a long time to read this book, since I read a lot of other ones in between chapters. I think it was a great book however, and wish I had known Mr. Churchill when he was young. I enjoyed his insights about hiself and his views of the Boer War.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A fascinating read. I so often forget that Churchill was a real Victorian. If I could have done half of the exciting things that this man did in the five years after he turned 20, I should be satisfied for life.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[he starts slowly but soon gets his second wind: wonderfully descriptive of someone destined to be one of the leading lights in the 20th centuary...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't remember when I read it, but it's been awhile ago.<br/><br/>I do remember really enjoying this piece of the great man's perspective on his early life. ]]></body>
    
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