![]() ![]() Then there was the Blitz, and Churchill’s presence among the ruins, inspiring people by the fact that he was there and he knew. And so we see the miraculous escape from Dunkirk as the British army is routed from the continent, and Churchill’s galvanizing speeches as the island girds itself for the invasion that never came. ![]() What I noticed was that there was as much war here as there was Churchill, perhaps because it was impossible to understand the character and specific actions of Churchill’s leadership except against the canvas of the war. Most of this volume (approximately 800 pages) covers the war years. In 2012, the long-awaited final volume was published. But before he did so, he passed along his notes, approximately 100 pages of text, and his blessing on the enterprise, to Paul Reid. I heard Manchester was struggling to complete the work though in poor health, and then that he had died. ![]() ![]() Summary: The third volume of Manchester’s biography of Churchill, covering his leadership of England during World War II, and his political and personal life until his death in 1965.ĭuring the 1980’s I read and relished the first two volume’s of William Manchester’s biography of Winston Churchill, and looked forward eagerly, as did many to the next installment covering the critical years of his Prime Ministership during the Second World War. New York: Bantam Publishing, 2013 (first published 2012). The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965, William Manchester and Paul Reid. ![]()
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