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   The Last Lion Box Set. By William Manchester, Paul Reid. Universally acclaimed for their compelling narrative, their fresh insights, and their objective renderings of Winston Churchill's life, THE LAST LION trilogy presents a revelatory and unparalleled portrait of this brilliant, flawed, and dynamic adventurer, aristocrat, soldier, and statesman. Born at the end of the 19th century 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 ...

   New The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965 by. Review Praise for THE 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'Bedazzling'Newsweek'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 ...