history in the grand manner. equal in stature to the first volume of the series.” - Newsday The years Alone are the pivotal years of Churchill’s career.” - The Boston Sunday Globe As Manchester points out several times, it’s as if the age, having produced a Hitler, then summoned Churchill as the only figure equal to the task of vanquishing him. 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.’” - The New Yorker “Manchester has such control over a huge and moving narrative, such illumination of character. As Parliament received with jeers and scorn his warnings against the growing Nazi threat, Churchill stood alone-only to be vindicated by history as a beacon of hope amid the gathering storm. Last Lion, The: Winston Spencer Churchill Alone 1932-1940 - Volume 2.
Manchester contends that even more than his leadership in combat, Churchill’s finest hour was the uphill battle against appeasement. Alone is the second volume of William Manchesters brilliant three-volume biography.
In this powerful biography, the middle volume of William Manchester’s critically acclaimed trilogy, Winston Churchill wages his defining campaign: not against Hitler’s war machine but against his own reluctant countrymen. Even readers who know the basic story will find much that is new.”- Newsweek “The best Churchill biography this generation.
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