A panegyric biography about John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, a British army officer and statesman to whom Churchill was a lineal descendant. In the preface to this volume, Churchill writes "It is my hope to recall this great shade from the past, and not only invest him with his panoply, but make him living and intimate to modern eyes." Written by Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, a British statesman, military officer, and writer who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom