Compact Disc (February 1st, 2013): $160.As has often been the case, there were some mitigating factors.History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II.rich in historical and social contexts.” -Time Product Details The heroic Churchill is in these pages, but so is the little boy writing forlorn letters to the father who all but ignored him.” - People “An altogether absorbing popular biography.
rich in historical and social contexts.” -Time “A vivid, thoroughly detailed biography of the Winston Churchill nobody knows.” - Boston Herald Churchill and Manchester were clearly made for each other.” - Chicago Tribune pulls together the multitudinous facets of one of the richest lives ever to be chronicled. One cannot do better than this book.” -The Philadelphia Inquirer “Manchester has read further, thought harder, and told with considerable verve what is mesmerizing in drama.
one of those books you devour line by line and word by word and finally hate to see end.” -Russell Baker
Praise for The Last Lion: Visions of Glory From master biographer William Manchester, The Last Lion: Visions of Glory reveals the first fifty-eight years of the life of an adventurer, aristocrat, soldier, and statesman whose courageous leadership guided the destiny of his darkly troubled times-and who is remembered as one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century. Against this backdrop, a remarkable man began to build his legacy. Yet within a few years the Empire would hover on the brink of catastrophe. When Winston Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace in 1874, Imperial Britain stood at the splendid pinnacle of her power. “An altogether absorbing popular biography.
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