The first volume of the official biography of Winston S.Churchill, covering the years from Churchill's birth to the beginning of his political career. The book contains Churchill's letters written as a child, as a boy at Harrow, as a cadet at Sandhurst, and later as a subaltern in India. This edition of the book includes a new introduction by Martin Gilbert, who, after the death of Randolph Churchill, took over and completed the eight volume biography.