The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill | Vol I by William Manchester

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill | Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 by William Manchester || Vol I in The Last Lion Trilogy || Best Biographies

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER || Highly Praised Biography

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 is the first volume in William Manchester's epic three volume The Last Lion - the best-selling and definitive biography of one of Britain's pre-eminent prime ministers.

"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

When Winston Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace, Imperial Britain stood at the splendid pinnacle of her power. Yet within a few years, the Empire would hover on the brink of a catastrophic new era.

LAST LION PRAISE:
"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

"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

This first volume of the best-selling biography of the adventurer, aristocrat, soldier, and statesman covers the first 58 years of the remarkable man whose courageous vision guided the destiny of those darkly troubled times and who looms today as one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century.