A biography details the life, context, times, and decisions of a man and is not merely a chronological recounting of the past. As a biographer, we try to re-create an illusion of the man’s life to give people a true sense for who they were and the circumstances they were dealt." "This is a biography and not a history, but you are often confused because they are in fact quite different. "Compelling reading.Manchester describes not only the man, but the times, context, history, background, "gestalt" in which he lived. history in the grand manner." -The Washington Post
equal in stature to the first volume of the series." - Newsday The years Alone are the pivotal years of Churchill's career." - The Boston Sunday Globe As Manchester points out several times, it's as if the age, having produced a Hitler, then summoned Churchill as the only figure equal to the task of vanquishing him. that he can claim the considerable achievement of having assembled enough powerful evidence to support Isaiah Berlin's judgment of Churchill as 'the largest human being of our time.'" - The New Yorker "Manchester has such control over a huge and moving narrative, such illumination of character. As Parliament received with jeers and scorn his warnings against the growing Nazi threat, Churchill stood alone-only to be vindicated by history as a beacon of hope amid the gathering storm. Manchester contends that even more than his leadership in combat, Churchill's finest hour was the uphill battle against appeasement. In this powerful biography, the middle volume of William Manchester's critically acclaimed trilogy, Winston Churchill wages his defining campaign: not against Hitler's war machine but against his own reluctant countrymen. Even readers who know the basic story will find much that is new."- Newsweek
Description "The best Churchill biography this generation.
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