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

from msaucier818

The second book in the three volume biography of Churchill by the late William Manchester. This book basically covers the 1930s through the invasion of Poland by Germany and ends with Churchill's a...

from stringsn88keys

Remarkable telling of Winston Churchill's wilderness years.

from alwaysmlo

The first chapter in this book is without comparison. Really brilliant writing, and what a great subject for Manchester. Churchill gets my vote for man of the century.

from tuckerresearch

Manchester's second volume on the life of Churchill is just as good as the first. The recapitulation of his life at the beginning is a good capsule of the first volume, and the opening chapter on a...

from lunza

This biography cannot be praised highly enough. It is so detailed and yet so well written that it does not seem dense or difficult at all. The first volume covers the years up to 1932, when Churchi...