 And what a story you're hearing about Captain John Smith. Anyone who's read his writing, his own journals, you can't put it down. It's like Grant's writing, Ulysses S. Grant's memoirs. This is some of the best reading material you can have to get your hands around Winston Churchill, too, writing about his own life story and particularly all of the battles he fought in his life. Smith's story, very much like Churchill's, except for one difference. Churchill grew up in a palace.