Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill - Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 - Couverture rigide

Manchester, William

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9780718122751: Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill - Visions of Glory, 1874-1932

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ISBN 10 : 0718122755 ISBN 13 : 9780718122751

Editeur : Michael Joseph Ltd, 1983

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Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

When Winston Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace in 1874, Imperial Britain stood at the splendid pinnacle of her power. Yet within a few years the Empire would hover on the brink of catastrophe. Against this backdrop, a remarkable man began to build his legacy. From master biographer William Manchester, The Last Lion: Visions of Glory reveals the first fifty-eight years of the life of an adventurer, aristocrat, soldier, and statesman whose courageous leadership guided the destiny of his darkly troubled times—and who is remembered as one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century.

Praise for The Last Lion: Visions of Glory

“Absolutely magnificent . . . a delight to read . . . one of those books you devour line by line and word by word and finally hate to see end.” —Russell Baker

“Bedazzling.” —Newsweek

“Manchester has read further, thought harder, and told with considerable verve what is mesmerizing in [Churchill’s] drama. . . . One cannot do better than this book.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer

“An altogether absorbing popular biography . . . The heroic Churchill is in these pages, but so is the little boy writing forlorn letters to the father who all but ignored him.” —People

“Superb . . . [Manchester] pulls together the multitudinous facets of one of the richest lives ever to be chronicled. . . . Churchill and Manchester were clearly made for each other.” —Chicago Tribune

“A vivid, thoroughly detailed biography of the Winston Churchill nobody knows.” —Boston Herald

“Adds a grand dimension . . . rich in historical and social contexts.” —Time

Pr�sentation de l'�diteur :

William Manchester met Winston Churchill on January 24, 1953. Their encounter on the Queen Mary sparked an intense curiosity in Manchester that would eventually result in his classic three-volume magnum opus The Last Lion.

In this, the first volume, we follow Churchill from his birth to 1932, when he began to warn against the remilitarization of Germany. Born of a lovely, wanton American mother and a gifted but unstable son of a duke, his childhood was one of wretched neglect. He sought glory on the battlefields of Cuba, Sudan, India, South Africa and the trenches of France. In Parliament he was the prime force behind the creation of Iraq and Jordan, laid the groundwork for the birth of Israel, and negotiated the independence of the Irish Free State. Yet, as Chancellor of the Exchequer he plunged England into economic crisis, and his fruitless attempt to suppress Gandhi's quest for Indian independence brought political chaos to Britain.

Throughout, Churchill learned the lessons that would prepare him for the storm to come, and as the 1930's began, he readied himself for the coming battle against Nazism--an evil the world had never before seen.

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