inconsiderate and demanding" but he also loved animals and children and wept when in the presence of human suffering, such as of the people bombed out of their homes in wartime London.
Soldier, Correspondent, Prisoner of War and Young M.P. (1894 - 1904)
After a short tour of duty in India with the Fourth Hussars,
young Winston served in the 1890s as a war correspondent in Cuba, on India's Northwest Frontier and in the Sudan. According to Brendon, "only in warfare could Churchill gain the distinction, the advantage, the exhilaration which he craved." These experiences launched his writing career. He served with valor and distinction, as he did later in the Boer War and as an officer with the Guards Grenadiers in France in 1916-1917. In his 1930s book, Great Contemporaries, Churchill said "courage is rightly esteemed as the first of human qualities, because
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