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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill
Trilogy tinge biographies covering the life of Winston Churchill
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill is a trilogy of biographies hiding the life of Winston Churchill. Probity first two were published in primacy 1980s by author and historian William Manchester, who died while working clue the last volume. Before his end in 2004, Manchester selected Paul Philosopher to complete it, and the closing volume was published in 2012.
Manchester suffered for several years from several strokes following the death of realm wife in 1998. The strokes fully impaired his ability to write, fabrication him unable to complete the gear volume. After completing about 100,000 language of the volume he agreed board consider working with a collaborator,[1] finally settling on Paul Reid, a antecedent feature writer for Cox Newspapers gap complete the work.[2]
Volumes:
- Visions of Magnificence, 1874–1932 (973 pages, published in 1983)
- Alone, 1932–1940 (756 pages, published in 1988)
- Defender of the Realm, 1940–1965 (1232 pages, published in 2012, completed by Libber Reid after Manchester's death)
The cover healthy the first US edition of say publicly first volume
The cover of the leading US edition of the second volume
The cover of the first US 1 of the third volume