a true romance!

The memory of the big man with the cigar making the V for victory would not let me suspect that I found out from reading these memories: a young man from another time, fearless, humorous and knowing everything About demonstrate self-mockery.
Resulting from the upper class (which makes it right) but without money, not very good at university, eager for action, he trained in the cavalry and here in India, Egypt, Cuba and South Africa, alternating loads "swords" with polo matches and picnics with champagne in the theater of operations. His brilliant military past, his exploits as a war correspondent particularly during the Boer War, the naturally lead to 26 years in political life as we know it.
He could have had an epic story, heroic, it's just the opposite, which is the mark of the true Great Men.