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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940
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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940 Paperback - 1989

by William Manchester

The long-awaited second volume of the best Churchill biography reveals the true portrait of this ambitious world leader. Discussion centers on the alarm he sounded about the terrible plot being hatched inside Hitler's deranged mind. Two 8-page photos inserts.


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"The best Churchill biography [for] this generation . . . Even readers who know the basic story will find much that is new."--Newsweek In this powerful biography, the middle volume of William Manchester's critically acclaimed trilogy, Winston Churchill wages his defining campaign: not against Hitler's war machine but against his own reluctant countrymen. Manchester contends that even more than his leadership in combat, Churchill's finest hour was the uphill battle against appeasement. As Parliament received with jeers and scorn his warnings against the growing Nazi threat, Churchill stood alone--only to be vindicated by history as a beacon of hope amid the gathering storm.

Praise for The Last Lion: Alone "Manchester has such control over a huge and moving narrative, such illumination of character . . . that he can claim the considerable achievement of having assembled enough powerful evidence to support Isaiah Berlin's judgment of Churchill as 'the largest human being of our time.'"--The New Yorker

"Memorable."--San Francisco Chronicle "Stirring . . . As Manchester points out several times, it's as if the age, having produced a Hitler, then summoned Churchill as the only figure equal to the task of vanquishing him. The years Alone are the pivotal years of Churchill's career."--The Boston Sunday Globe

"A triumph . . . equal in stature to the first volume of the series."--Newsday

"Vivid . . . history in the grand manner."--The Washington Post "Compelling reading."--The Times (London)

First line

THE FIRST olive moments of daylight, anticipating the imminent appearance of the sun over the English Channel, disclose a wide, misty, green plain descending to the South Downs and the sea.

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  • Title The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940
  • Author William Manchester
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Pages 800
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bantam, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1989-09-03
  • ISBN 9780385313315 / 0385313314
  • Weight 1.42 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.2 x 1.72 in (21.08 x 13.21 x 4.37 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects Churchill, Winston, Great Britain - Politics and government -
  • Dewey Decimal Code 941.084

Media reviews

“Manchester has such control over a huge and moving narrative, such illumination of character . . . that he can claim the considerable achievement of having assembled enough powerful evidence to support Isaiah Berlin’s judgment of Churchill as ‘the largest human being of our time.’”The New Yorker
 
“Memorable.”San Francisco Chronicle
 
“Stirring . . . As Manchester points out several times, it’s as if the age, having produced a Hitler, then summoned Churchill as the only figure equal to the task of vanquishing him. The years Alone are the pivotal years of Churchill’s career.”The Boston Sunday Globe
 
“The best Churchill biography [for] this generation . . . Even readers who know the basic story will find much that is new.”Newsweek
 
“A triumph . . . equal in stature to the first volume of the series.”Newsday
 
“Vivid . . . history in the grand manner.”—The Washington Post
 
“Compelling reading.”The Times (London)

About the author

William Manchester was a hugely successful popular historian and renowned biographer. In addition to the three volumes of The Last Lion, his books include Goodbye, Darkness, A World Lit Only by Fire, The Glory and the Dream, The Arms of Krupp, American Caesar, and The Death of a President, as well as assorted works of journalism. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal and the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award. He passed away in 2004.
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