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Winston Churchill’s World War II saga (part 3): Churchill the writer

March 29, 2018 | By Jim Stovall | No Comments | Filed in: journalism, writers, writing.

Winston Churchill caricature

In November 1895, Winston Churchill sailed for America for the first time. His ultimate destination was Cuba, where the Spanish government was attempting to put down an insurrection by Cuban rebels. The twenty-year-old Churchill (he turned twenty-one while in Cuba) was a Second Lieutenant in the British Army, and he was going to Cuba as • Read More »