Battle : The Life Story of Winston Churchill. By Hugh
Martin. (Gollancz. 2s. 6cL)
This energetic, rather breathless, account of the Prime Minister's life is written by a journalist with claims to attention. " I was at the Sidney Street ' siege' in 1911; on the fringe of the Antwerp enterprise in 1914 ; a spectator of the Dardanelles tragedy in 1915 ; in personal contact with the Irish Treaty settlement in 1921 and the Irish civil war in 1922 ; at Constantinople during the final stage of the Chanak episode towards the close of the follow- ing year ; and I watched from the Press Gallery of the House of Commons the opening of all five Churchill Budgets, in 1925 to 1929." Any biographer of Mr. 'Churchill is handicapped, of course, by the fact that Mr. Churchill himself has already written so admirably on the same theme.
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