Great Britain was the home of many famous people during the early part of the twentieth century. Many of these famous people were associated with literature. Great Britain was also the setting of a few tragedies during that time period. One of these tragic occurrences was World War I. Sir Winston Churchill, World War I, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle helped shape the British landscape, both figuratively and literally, during the early years of the twentieth century.

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a key figurehead in the British and Allied Power victory in World War I. In 1911, Churchill was appointed first lord of the admiralty. "He reorganized the navy, developed antisubmarine tactics, and modernized the fleet" states Thompson. During World War I, Churchill joined the British army in France in November 1915. Churchill was appointed to the position of minister of munitions in July 1917. He promoted the production of the tank while he was in the admiralty (Thompson 547-549). However, Churchill did much more than just participate in World War I.

Churchill was not only a world leader, he was also a writer and a historian. "An astute observer of military campaigns and geop

After America joined the war, the advantage swung in favor of the Allied Powers. Russia had problems with their own revolution, so Germany easily defeated them. America helped turn the tide against the Central Powers after Russia had been defeated. World War I ended with the Allies "winning" the war. There were many casualties during the war, although the Central Powers had many more dead soldiers than did the Allies. "The Treaty of Paris was signed in 1921 to formally end World War I" (Stalling 55-62).

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle also did things in literature that did not involve Sherlock Holmes. He spoke about spiritualism throughout Europe, Australia, the United States, and Canada. Arthur Conan Doyle was knighted and became Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1902 ("Arthur"). The Student Research Center summed up Doyle's writings as follows:

olitical affairs, Churchill's early writing documents his participation in several international military interventions at the turn of the century". The books that he wrote were mainly flashbacks of his early visits to foreign lands. Churchill was captured during the Boer War in 1899. He escaped from a South African prison during 1899. This led him to write one of his autobiographies, My African Journey, in 1908. He also wrote another autobiography, My Early Life, written in 1930. My Early Life was later reprinted as A Roving Commission. The World Crisis was his first major historical study. The World Crisis sums up the strategic military tactics of Great Britain during World War I. "As historian Manfred Weidborn notes, My Early Life represents 'the usual Churchillian melange of autobiography, apologia,

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