Copyright © 2016 by Candice Millard
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Cover design by John Fontana
Cover images: (foreground photograph) Winston S. Churchill by English photographer. Private Collection. Photograph © Christie’s Images / Bridgeman Images; (background photograph) Officers watching the Battle of Colenso from General Redvers Buller’s headquarters on Naval Gun Hill, Second Boer War, c. 1899.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Millard, Candice, author.
Title: Hero of the empire : the Boer war, a daring escape and the making of Winston Churchill / Candice Millard.
Description: First edition. New York : Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2015049806 ISBN 9780385535731 (hardcover) ISBN 9780385535748 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Churchill, Winston, 1874–1965—Military leadership. South African War, 1899–1902—Participation, British. South African War, 1899–1902—Prisoners and prisons, British.
Classification: LCC DA566.9.C5 M54 2016 DDC 968.04831092—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015049806
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