Winston Churchill as writer
（重定向自Winston S. Churchill）
![Churchill at his desk in 1940](/Images/godic/202502/21/Winston_Churchill_As_Prime_Minister_1940-1945_MH263925623.jpg")
![Churchill, age 21, as a cornet in the 4th Queens Own Hussars in 1895](/Images/godic/202502/21/Churchill,_uniform5623.jpg")
![Randolph Churchill, Winston's son, who edited his father's editions of collected speeches](/Images/godic/202502/21/Cecil_Beaton_Photographs-_Political_and_Military_Personalities;_Churchill,_Randolph_Frederick_Edward_Spencer_CBM15855623.jpg")
![Cover of The River War, 1899](/Images/godic/202502/21/Cover_of_The_River_War_Vol_2,_18995623.jpg")
Winston Churchill, in addition to his careers of soldier and politician, was a prolific writer under the pen name "Winston S. Churchill". After being commissioned into the 4th Queen's Own Hussars in 1895, Churchill gained permission to observe the Cuban War of Independence, and sent war reports to Daily Graphic. He continued his war journalism in British India, at the Siege of Malakand, then in the Sudan during the Mahdist War and in southern Africa during the Second Boer War.