Last Lion: Volume 1: Winston Churchill Visions of Glory 1874 - 1932

Title: Last Lion: Volume 1: Winston Churchill Visions of Glory 1874 - 1932
Author: William Manchester
ISBN: 0316545031
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 1983
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 992
Publisher Description: In "The Last Lion," the first volume of Manchester's two-volume biography, the Winston Spencer Churchill story is one of high adventure, bitter defeats, and the inner strength of the towering Englishman whose watchword was: "Never give in. Never, never, never, never give in." In historical crises his soaring prose and histrionic manner made superb theatre. Lesser politicians, like Ramsay MacDonald and Stanley Baldwin ("Two nurses, " he called them, "fit to keep silence in a darkened room"), could not grasp his vision, his complex drives, and his desperate search for ways to escape the heavy, almost suicidal depressions which stalked him throughout his extraordinary career.