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The Last Lion: Vol. II, Alone 1932-1940 by William Manchester |
Manchester analyses, brilliantly and passionately, the long wait endured by Churchill - not least due to his own fault - before becoming the great British War Leader, embodiment of victory to millions. Manchester gives him to us warts and all, from a backbencher - at 58 'already regarded as an anachronism' - to his coming to power in 1940, 'because he had seen through Hitler from the very beginning'. Let's hope that Volume III maintains this standard.*
* Editor's note: The Last Lion, Vol. I - Visions of Glory 1874-1932 was reviewed in bwl 41. William Manchester had started to work on Vol. III - the last of the series - but died quite recently. Apparently it will be completed and published in the foreseeable future as a posthumous edition.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 42 October 2007 ) |
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