The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill:

The long-awaited second volume of the best Churchill biography reveals the true portrait of this ambitious world leader. Discussion centers on the alarm he sounded about the terrible plot being hatched inside Hitler's deranged mind. Two 8-page photos inserts.

William Manchester was a hugely successful popular historian and renowned biographer. In addition to the three volumes of The Last Lion, his books include Goodbye, Darkness, A World Lit Only by Fire, The Glory and the Dream, The Arms of Krupp, American Caesar, and The Death of a President, as well as assorted works of journalism. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal and the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award. He passed away in 2004.

List of Illustrations

xiii

Chronology

xvii

List of Maps

xxi

Author's Note

xxiii

The Story Thus Far

xxix

Preamble The Lion Caged

1

(36)

Prologue A Fever over Europe

37

(34)

Shoals

71

(84)

Reef

155

(82)

Undertow

237

(124)

Vortex

361

(80)

Surge

441

(100)

Cataclysm

541

(144)

Source Notes

685

(32)

Index

717

(50)

Copyright Acknowledgments

767

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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940

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