The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965
Autor William Manchester, Paul Reiden Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 noi 2012
Born at the end of the 19thcentury when Imperial Britain still stood at the splendid pinnacle of her power, Churchill would witness the shift a few years later as the Empire hovered on the brink of a catastrophic new era. One of the greatest wartime leaders of our time, he would go on to stand alone, politically isolated in Parliament, as he took the lead in warning of the growing Nazi threat, and would lead Britain to victory against Nazi Germany and the Axis powers in World War II.
Now, celebrated historian William Manchester's landmark biographies are collected together for the first time, along with the eagerly anticipated final installment Churchill's last years in power. More than thirty years in the making, THE LAST LION is the definitive work on this remarkable man whose courageous vision guided the destiny of a nation during darkly troubled times-and who looms as one of the greatest figures of our century.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316227780
ISBN-10: 0316227781
Pagini: 3008
Dimensiuni: 165 x 254 x 159 mm
Greutate: 4.29 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
ISBN-10: 0316227781
Pagini: 3008
Dimensiuni: 165 x 254 x 159 mm
Greutate: 4.29 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
Notă biografică
Paul
Reid
is
an
award-winning
journalist.
In
late
2003
his
friend,
William
Manchester,
in
failing
health,
asked
Paul
to
completeThe
Last
Lion:
Defender
of
the
Realm.
He
lives
in
North
Carolina.
William Manchester was a hugely successful popular historian and biographer whose books includeThe Last Lion, Volumes 1 and 2,Goodbye Darkness,A World Lit Only by Fire,The Glory and the Dream,The Arms of Krupp,American Caesar,The Death of the President, and assorted works of journalism.
William Manchester was a hugely successful popular historian and biographer whose books includeThe Last Lion, Volumes 1 and 2,Goodbye Darkness,A World Lit Only by Fire,The Glory and the Dream,The Arms of Krupp,American Caesar,The Death of the President, and assorted works of journalism.
Recenzii
Praise
forTHE
LAST
LION,
volumes
1
&
2:
"Manchester has read further, thought harder, and told with considerable verve what is mesmerizing in its drama...One cannot do better than this book."—The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Manchester has such control over a huge and moving narrative, such illumination of character...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.'"—Alistair Cooke,The New Yorker
"Manchester has read further, thought harder, and told with considerable verve what is mesmerizing in its drama...One cannot do better than this book."—The Philadelphia Inquirer
"Manchester has such control over a huge and moving narrative, such illumination of character...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.'"—Alistair Cooke,The New Yorker