Born of an American mother and the gifted but unstable son of a duke, his childhood was one of wretched neglect. In this, the first volume, Manchester follows Churchill from his birth to 1932, when he began to warn against the re-militarization of Germany. The Last Lion: Visions of Glory follows the first fifty-eight years of Churchill's life-the years that mold him into the man who will become one of the most influential politicians of the twentieth century. The first volume in William Manchester's masterful, magnum opus account of Winston Churchill's life.
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