The Man Within. Alison Carlson

to India and across Africa. He fought the Pathans in what is now

      Pakistan and charged with the 21st Lancers at the Battle of Omdurman

      in the Sudan. When effectively forced out of office in 1915, he rejoined

      the army on the Western Front, commanding a battalion of Royal Scots

      Fusiliers – not from the sheltered sinecure that his fame might have secured

      him, but, heedless of his own safety, from the front line.

      Winston Churchill at Sandhurst

      with two fellow cadets just

      before his commission in the 4th

      Queen’s Own Hussars, 1894.

      Quote below: Churchill said this

      to Sir Felix Semon, the throat

      specialist he consulted about

      his stuttering and struggles

      pronouncing the letter S, something he never mastered and which he turned into a prop of his oratory.

      “Of course it is not my intention to become a mere professional

      soldier. I only wish to gain some experience. Some day I shall be a

      statesman, as my father was before me.”

      “Over me beat the invisible wings.”

      Second Lieutenant Churchill of

      the 4th Queen’s Own Hussars,