Star One. What was up with Winston writing?

Winston Churchill is most famously known for as being the British Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill, however, was also an author during his life. When Churchill was twenty-four, he published his first on-fiction novel. It was titled The Story of the Malakand Field Force and was published in 1898. The novel is a detailed account of the 1987 military campaign on the Northwest Frontier, in which Churchill participated as a lieutenant in cavalry. In Malakand Field Force, Churchill describes the battle system of the Indians and the horror sights of seeing bodies piled six-foot high. The experiences in the Northwest Frontier gave Churchill a feel and more of a grasp than any other leader during World War II of trench warfare.
Churchill's second novel was titled The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan and was published in 1899. Churchill also wrote this historic account while continuing to be an active military officer. The unabridged version contains many drawings, photographs, and colored maps of the areas of battle and all the territory surrounding it. The unabridged version also contains vivid narratives of Winston's personal adventures, his views on British expansionism, and passages of deep reflection of the requirements of a civilized government, criticism of military and political leaders. In 1902, when Winston became a member of Parliament, they felt that some of his opinions, beliefs, and statements should be edited out of the book for political purposes. Thus, the book was shortened to one volume, cutting out the "controversial" pieces of it.
In 1923 Churchill's next book was published, titled London to Ladysmith via Pretoria. The book is dedicated to the staff of the Natal Government railway. It is Churchill's personal accounts of the beginning five months of the Boer War. In 1899 Churchill had been captured as a war reporter. He then escaped and rejoined the army, going to Ladysmith to take Pretoria. Churchill and his cousin were two of the first military leaders to make it to Pretoria, and received the surrender of multiple Boer guards.
Churchill's next book was entitled A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. Churchill began writing it in 1937, however due to war and other of his compositions, it was not published until the years 1956 through 1958. The book began as a four volume historical account on the history of the "English-speaking people" and the American side of them. Since the United States had broken away from the crown they had created a division between the English-speaking people. The book dealt with the division, the causes, and the other nations that were still united under the crown. The fourth volume of the book was not completed until Winston was eighty. The four volumes of the text are titled: "The Birth of Britain", "The New World", "The Age of Revolution" and "The Great Democracies."
Winston's final book (that I'm talking about, he wrote around 25 apparently) is titled The Second World War. The book contains six volumes and is a historical account from the end of the First World War, until July of 1945. The book was opposed at first because a majority of the population saw him as a leader, and not an historian that was unbiased and able to cite nothing but facts.



and then we can't forget Churchill's famous V for Victory! pose.




sources
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRchurchill.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill