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Book Condition: Used Very good
Jacket condition: Good
ISBN: 0316545120 / 9780316545129
Seller: Ground Zero Books

United States
About Item: Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1988. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Good. xxvi, 756, [2] pages. Chronology is printed on the endpapers. Illustrations. Maps. Author's Note. Source Notes. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. This is the second volume in William Manchester's projected three-volume biography of Winston Churchill. In this book, William Manchester challenges the assumption that Churchill's finest hour was as a wartime leader. During the years 1932-1940, he was tested as few men are. Pursued by creditors---at one point he had to put up his home for sale---he remained solvent only by writing an extraordinary number of books and magazine articles. He was disowned by his own party, dismissed by the BBC and Fleet Street and the social and political establishments as a warmonger, and twice nearly lost his seat in Parliament. Churchill stood almost alone against Nazi aggression and the British and French pusillanimous policy… Read More
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