Last Lion: Alone - Softcover

Manchester, William

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440500478 ISBN 13: 9780440500476

Publisher: Laurel Leaf, 1989

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wraps, 768 pp

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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)"

"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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