The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940: Amazon.ca: William Manchester: Books

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars We're left hanging, Oct 21 2004

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Norman Jack (Nepean, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Last Lion, The: Winston Spencer Churchill Alone 1932-1940 - Volume 2 (Hardcover)

I cannot praise this book in any better fashion than those before me. However, I must plead with Mr. Manchester's heirs to bring together the material gathered for volume three. Following his wife's death in 1998, Manchester had a stroke, and announced he wouldn't be able to finish volume three. On June 1st of this year, he passed away. Just as Martin Gilbert took over Randolph Churchill's task of writing his father's official biography, surely the Manchester heirs could find an author who could do justice to the research this great author had done on the third volume.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Captivating Read, May 4 2004

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Dr. W. G. Covington, Jr. (Edinboro, Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Last Lion, The: Winston Spencer Churchill Alone 1932-1940 - Volume 2 (Hardcover)

As Hitler was gaining power in Germany, Churchill was warning his fellow countrymen of the dangers thatlurked. He did not receive a listening hear. At a speech before a University audience in Oxford when he told the crowd it was "essential for us to be safe in our island home," the audience burst into laughter. The laughter grew so raucous that Churchill could not continue. These are the sort of snapshots that Manchester captures that makes this book such a delightful read.

Churchill was written off more than once. This second snapshot describes what happened:
"Joseph Stalin, receiving a British delegation headed by Nancy and George Bernard Shaw, had bluntly asked her about Winston's political prospects.Her eyes widened. 'Churchill?' she had said. She gave a scornful little laugh and replied, 'Oh, he's finished.'" These are just two examples of the thoroughness of this well-written book. The author takes a complicated era and makes it understandable.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Wilderness Years, Feb 4 2004

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Joseph J. Slevin (Carlsbad, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Last Lion, The: Winston Spencer Churchill Alone 1932-1940 - Volume 2 (Hardcover)

I liked this treatise on the life of Churchill. His wilderness years when those who treated him with disdain thought of him as a wash up.

This was his time to bide his time, in order to gain his composure for his future use.

Anyone in the oxbow of life can gain insights on how to use time rightly until the attainment of a goal.

Churchill did not just bide his time, he used it to his advantage.

One day I hope Manchester finishes volume III.....