Early in his life, while working as a war correspondent covering the Second Boer War, 24 year old Winston Churchill was accompanying British troops aboard an armored train reconnaissance that was wrecked and derailed by Boer guerrillas. Churchill was captured and interred in a P.O.W. camp from which he dramatically escaped several months later. His three hundred mile journey behind enemy lines to freedom turned him into a world celebrity and helped propel him to a seat in Parliament after the war’s conclusion.
Afterwards he recalled in London to Ladysmith via Pretoria, his book of