My Early Life

My Early Life: A Roving Commission is a 1930 book by Winston Churchill. It is an autobiography of his life from birth in 1874 up to approximately 1902. A significant portion of the book covers his experiences in the Second Boer War which he earlier described in London to Ladysmith via Pretoria (1900) and Ian Hamilton's March (1900), together with descriptions of other campaigns he had previously written about; The River War (1899) concerning the ... more

My Early Life: A Roving Commission is a 1930 book by Winston Churchill. It is an autobiography of his life from birth in 1874 up to approximately 1902. A significant portion of the book covers his experiences in the Second Boer War which he earlier described in London to Ladysmith via Pretoria (1900) and Ian Hamilton's March (1900), together with descriptions of other campaigns he had previously written about; The River War (1899) concerning the reconquest of Sudan and The Story of the Malakand Field Force (1898) in today's Pakistan. The book also describes his childhood and schooldays, and events between those he had previously published. The introduction notes that Churchill endeavoured to write the book from his point of view at the time of the events, but it contains different commentaries on the events described in the other books, many of which were originally written as contemporary newspaper columns. From his perspective of writing in 1930, he notes that he has 'drawn a... less