Comments on: From Ladysmith to London: A Harrowing Escape https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/08/11/from-ladysmith-to-london-a-harrowing-escape/ Tue, 14 Aug 2012 06:55:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: zackoz https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/08/11/from-ladysmith-to-london-a-harrowing-escape/#comment-494333 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 06:55:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13132#comment-494333 It was a long time ago, but my chief memory of the show was the “young Winston”, having stowed away on a train, revealing himself on top of a carriage as the train rolled out of Boer territory (into Mozambique?), and shouting mockingly to the Boer guards “I’m Winston bloody Churchill!!”

The other memory is of Winston at the Battle of Omdurman (?) reporting to General Kitchener.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/08/11/from-ladysmith-to-london-a-harrowing-escape/#comment-494332 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:19:16 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13132#comment-494332 Zackoz, thanks, I didn’t know about that. I can’t find it on Netflix, but Young Winston is available as a DVD (that’s the link) or as a VHS and Amazon appears to have it as an instant video, but for about the same price as the DVD.

]]> By: zackoz https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/08/11/from-ladysmith-to-london-a-harrowing-escape/#comment-494331 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 06:10:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13132#comment-494331 The escape, and various other events, were dramatised on TV many years ago as “Young Winston”, depicting Chuchill’s early life:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069528/

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/08/11/from-ladysmith-to-london-a-harrowing-escape/#comment-494330 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 21:35:36 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13132#comment-494330 John, you won’t be disappointed. When you read the chapter I cribbed here you’ll immediately know that it was very hard for me to cut out what I cut out. But I had to cut out stuff.

]]> By: John https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/08/11/from-ladysmith-to-london-a-harrowing-escape/#comment-494329 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 21:31:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=13132#comment-494329 That was marvelous! The contrast that manifests when real human urgency is expressed in demure 19th century prose has always fascinated me. Thanks Greg, I will download the full document immediately.

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