By 1911, when Churchill began his first term as First Lord of the Admiralty, the greatest weapons in the world were then the great Dreadnoughts. In that conflict events oddly, but fortuitously smiled on Churchill when he was captured and then escaped from the Boars which not only made him a world-famous figure but catapulted him into a 60-year political career that matched none other in history. There he saw the coming effectiveness of modern weapons.Ĭhurchill next experienced what modern Krupp artillery and machine guns could do to an army while serving as a Morning Post correspondent in the Boar War during 1899. At the end of the 19th Century, Churchill participated in what is considered the last great cavalry charge in British military history while he was part of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force leading up to the battle of Omdurman. No one could have then imagined what a modern war would look like, however, they did have foreshadowing hints. Volume One of “The Last Lion” tells that first story of nations stumbling into war.
However, he had seen the world go to war before in 1914 when he played a similar center stage role as First Lord of The Admiralty. We are all familiar with Churchill’s 1940 darkest hour as Prime Minister, which lead to Britain’s finest hour.
The greatest lesson in Manchester’s works is how easily the world found itself engulfed in a world war, not once but twice.
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