There, among eighty sheltering acres of beech, oak, lime, and chestnut, stands the singular country home of England's most singular statesman, a brilliant, domineering, intuitive, inconsiderate, self-centered, emotional, generous, ruthless, visionary, megalomaniacal, and heroic genius who inspires fear, devotion, rage, and admiration among his peers.' '.But now, fourteen years after the Armistice of 1918, the Weald (of Kent) is an idyll of peace, and the explorer on foot finds that it possesses camouflaged delights. The Last Lion 2: Winston Spencer Churchill Alone, 1932-40, another hit for William Maschester! I think nobody could have surmised better than Maschester who Winston Spencer Churchill was, as he begins the second volume of his The Last Lion trilogy: “Compelling reading.” - The Times (London)

history in the grand manner.” -The Washington Post equal in stature to the first volume of the series.” - Newsday Even readers who know the basic story will find much that is new.” - Newsweek

“The best Churchill biography this generation. The years Alone are the pivotal years of Churchill’s career.” - The Boston Sunday Globe As Manchester points out several times, it’s as if the age, having produced a Hitler, then summoned Churchill as the only figure equal to the task of vanquishing him. that he can claim the considerable achievement of having assembled enough powerful evidence to support Isaiah Berlin’s judgment of Churchill as ‘the largest human being of our time.’” - The New Yorker “Manchester has such control over a huge and moving narrative, such illumination of character. As Parliament received with jeers and scorn his warnings against the growing Nazi threat, Churchill stood alone-only to be vindicated by history as a beacon of hope amid the gathering storm. Manchester contends that even more than his leadership in combat, Churchill’s finest hour was the uphill battle against appeasement. In this powerful biography, the middle volume of William Manchester’s critically acclaimed trilogy, Winston Churchill wages his defining campaign: not against Hitler’s war machine but against his own reluctant countrymen.

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