The Last Lion: Volume 1
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Published By Little, Brown and Company
Format Hardback
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Number Of Pages 992
Publication Date 05/30/1983
ISBN 9780316545037
Dimensions 6.38 inches x 9.5 inches
"Absolutely magnificent . . . a delight to read . . . one of those books you devour line by line and word by word and finally hate to see end."—Russell Baker
"Bedazzling."—Newsweek
"Manchester has read further, thought harder, and told with considerable verve what is mesmerizing in [Churchill's] drama. . . . One cannot do better than this book."—Philadelphia Inquirer
"An altogether absorbing popular biography . . . The heroic Churchill is in these pages, but so is the little boy writing forlorn letters to the father who all but ignored him."—People
"Superb . . . [Manchester] pulls together the multitudinous facets of one of the richest lives ever to be chronicled. . . . Churchill and Manchester were clearly made for each other."—Chicago Tribune
"Adds a grand dimension . . . rich in historical and social contexts.—Time