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In 1893, young army officer Cecil Hambrough was murdered at the
sprawling Ardlamont estate in Scotland, unleashing one of the most
gripping court cases Victorian Britain had ever known. Even more
remarkably, the case brought together two pioneering forensic
experts – Joseph Bell and Henry Littlejohn – two men upon whom
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes happened to be based. It is
their involvement in the Ardlamont affair that reveals how the
world’s most famous detective came to be: the worlds of crime
fiction and crime fact were about to collide spectacularly. In this
extraordinary book, Daniel Smith outlines the key roles of the two
men whose powers of deduction had so inspired Doyle and explores
the real-world origins of Sherlock Holmes through the prism of a
mystery as engrossing as any case the Great Detective ever tackled.
Remembered for his leadership during the Second World War,
Churchill’s commitment to 'never surrender', along with his
stirring speeches and radio broadcasts, helped inspire British
resistance to the Nazi threat when Britain stood alone against an
occupied Europe. But as well as a hugely successful politician,
Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a journalist,
historian and a writer, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in
1953. How to Think Like Churchill reveals the essential principles
behind this fascinating leader, exploring the defining moments and
enduring speeches that have made him one of the most esteemed
figures of the twentieth century.
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