it is my very great pleasure to introduce to you candice millard. [applause] ms. millard: thank you very much. do we have the powerpoint? i am so sorry. i didn't know that -- i sent it in earlier. great. ok, all right. sorry about that. so, thank you mary for that introduction. i really enjoyed our conversation over lunch. i wanted to say a quick thank you to the international churchill society, especially lee pollock, who has been a tremendous help to me in the source of encouragement and incredibly gracious and generous over the past five years while i have been working on this book. it is a tremendous honor to be here, very humbling to have a chance to meet some renown ed historians, some of my personal heroes including sir david cannadine. i was telling him that he is a very difficult act to follow, but i will try my best. as i sat in this room last night, having a beautiful dinner , great conversation, i suddenly realized that i had been here before, but it was for a very different event. i was here for a memorial for two coworkers from national geographic ju

>> coming up on american history tv, from the 33rd international churchill conference, author candice millard talks about her book "hero of the empire: the boer war, a daring escape, and the making of winston churchill." this is about 45 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. our next speaker, and i accidentally sat next to each