LAST LION TWO VOLUME BOX SET Paperback Author: WILLIAM MANCHESTER | Language: English | ISBN:
B000OTRG6S | Format: PDF, EPUB
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- Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (1983)
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William Manchester died before finishing his massive three-volume biography of Winston Churchill, having completed Visions of Glory - Churchill's childhood, military career, and early politics - and Alone, covering the period of relative political inactivity from 1932 to the start of World War II.
This is a biography which covers both Winston's personal life and political career.
The first volume of the set is gripping, Manchester having a subject of almost unparalleled interest, a bright but very difficult child who finally finds his place as a soldier and uses his family connections - his father being a descendent of the Duke of Marlborough - to gain assignments in zones of danger from fighting on the frontiers of Afghanistan to fighting the Boers in South Africa. His adventures in faraway realms of the Empire are absolutely absorbing, sort of Boy's Own stuff for adults. Churchill was almost fearless and often extremely lucky. He also later served as a brave officer on the front in the Great War.
Manchester's style is clear and direct, but there are times he enters into subject areas I prefer he hadn't, as speculations on Winston's sexuality or rather lack of it, but Manchester had a remarkable memory and did extensive research so that all kinds of interesting little facts are scattered through the text. He also follows the custom of periodically giving little vignettes of the kind of events which were happening at the time.
Churchill's childhood was not one anyone would envy, despite the wealth and privilege and great connections with history. His father, who died fairly early, was one of the most promising men in Parliament, having been marked out as a future Prime Minister.
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