Bantam The last lion: winston spencer churchill: visions of glory, 1874-1932, paperback/william manchester

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New York Times Bestseller - 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.