In Parliament he was the prime force behind the creation of Iraq and Jordan, laid the groundwork for the birth of Israel, and negotiated the independence of the Irish Free State. He sought glory on the battlefields of Cuba, Sudan, India, South Africa and the trenches of France. Born of a lovely, wanton American mother and a gifted but unstable son of a duke, his childhood was one of wretched neglect. Their encounter on the Queen Mary sparked an intense curiosity in Manchester that would eventually result in his classic three-volumemagnum opus The Last Lion. In this, the first volume, we follow Churchill from his birth to 1932, when he began to warn against the remilitarization of Germany. "William Manchester met Winston Churchill on January 24, 1953. Manchester, William The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Visions of Glory, 1874-1932īoston / Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1983.
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