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Lesser politicians, like Ramsay, MacDonand and Stanley Baldwin ("Twin nurses," he called them, "fit to keep silence in a darkened room"), could not grasp his vision, his complex drives, and his desperate search for ways to escape the heavy, almost suicidal depressions which stalked him throughout his extraordinary career.Working with diaries, memoranda, government documents, the private correspondence of Churchill and others, interviews with Churchill's surviving colleagues and members of his family, and a profound grasp of British history, William Manchester has woven the strands of the man and the British Empire's decline into a driving narrative, re-creating the sweep of the past and the private life of England's last and greatest statesman. Never, never, never, never give in." In historical crises his soaring prose and histrionic manner made superb theater. In this, the first volume of Manchester's two-volume biography, the Churchill story is one of high adventure, bitter defeats, and the inner strength of the towering Englishman whose watchword was: "Never give in. Thus the twin themes of The Last Lion: the life of Churchill and the death of the Empire he cherished. Manchester's dispatches, on the other hand, would describe the imperial twilight of England's supremacy as the world's sole superpower. The difference was that in his youth the British Empire had reached high noon. In the late 1890's he himself had carried out similar assignments as a correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and the Morning Post. Churchill was intrigued by Manchester's assignment: the Middle East and India. "William Manchester met Winston Churchill aboard the Queen Mary on January 24, 1953, when, as a young foreign correspondent for the Baltimore Sun, he found himself in the stateroom adjacent to the prime minister's suite. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, family tree, color illustrated front and rear endpaper maps, and a portrait photographic frontispiece. Includes List of Illustrations List of Maps Preamble: The Lion at Bay Prologue: Land of Hope and Glory Acknowledgments Source Notes Select Bibliography Copyright Acknowledgments and Index. Read The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965 book reviews & author details and more at Amazon.in. New condition black cloth boards with embossed front cover lion insignia and gold spine letters enclosed within a red and gold rectangular border, and contained in a new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Amazon.in - Buy The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965 book online at best prices in India on Amazon.in.