It Was Churchill

In the 1990s Winston Churchill’s granddaughter, Celia Sandys, set out to write a book about her famous grandfather. She intended to dedicate one chapter to the eight months Churchill spent in South Africa during the Boer War. Consequently, she traveled to South Africa to visit the places where Churchill was known to have been.

During a national television interview she asked viewers to contact her if they had any information about her grandfather. They did. Sandys was overwhelmed and delighted by the deluge of calls, faxes and letters she received and decided to write not a chapter…