1,182p.)1st editions, 3 volumes, illustrations, illustrated end pages. The Churchill conjured up by William Manchester and Paul Reid is a man of indomitable courage, lightning fast intellect, and an irresistible will to action.
Boston & New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1983-2012. An unmatched biography of one of the Twentieth Century’s great men.Īll three volumes very good, in very good dust jackets dust jacket to volume 2 clipped.
The project outlived the author, and Manchester’s hand-picked successor, Paul Reid finished the work from his mentor’s research and notes. Thirty years later Manchester embarked on a three-decade long endeavor to chronicle the life of the last great British imperialist, and savior of free government. Churchill had written the same assignment at the same age, and the two bonded. Historian William Manchester met Winston Churchill in 1953, when the youthful Manchester was on his way to write about the Middle East for the Baltimore Sun. William Manchester and Paul Reid’s The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill.
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