Winston is born in 1874 in Blenheim Palace. The heir to a rich and famous family seems destined for a golden childhood and a glittering career. In fact, young Winston’s life is an emotional, educational and career disaster. His parents are distant and aloof. Young Winston is bottom of the class in every school he attends and constantly in trouble. In a further disappointment to his father he fails to make the grade in the infantry and joins the lesser option, the cavalry. His disappointed father dies at a young age. Desperate to follow his late father into politics, young Winston runs for a seat in Parliament – and loses. That “glittering career” is an apparent non-starter as Winston sails for South Africa to report on the Boer War as a newspaper correspondent. But he is promptly captured by the Boers and sent to a POW camp. But this low point in the young man’s life proves to be the Turning Point. Churchill makes a daring escape, writes a dashing and vivid account of it – and becomes world famous. His political career is resurrected from the ashes…