My Early Life

Sir Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) was one of the most famous political figures of the twentieth century. He was also a well-known historian, biographer, and writer. Among his many books are The World Crisis (six volumes), The Second World War (six volumes), and A History of the English-Speaking Peoples (our volumes).

James W. Muller is the editor of this St. Augustine’s edition of My Early Life: A Roving Commission. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, Chairman of the Board of Academic Advisers of the International Churchill Society, and a by-fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He edited the definitive edition of Churchill’s 1899 book The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan, published in two volumes by St. Augustine’s Press in 2020, and similar editions of two books of essays Churchill published later in the 1930s, Thoughts and Adventures and Great Contemporaries, published in 2024 by Bloomsbury Books.