The Last Lion

The first volume of William Manchester's acclaimed biography follows Winston Churchill across the first fifty-eight years of his life, from his birth in 1874 to 1932 — the aristocratic childhood, the reckless young soldier and war correspondent, the swift and stormy political rise, and the onset of the "wilderness years" as he began to warn a complacent Britain about a re-arming Germany. Visions of Glory is popular biography at its most immersive, drawing a richly human portrait of the man well before his finest hour.