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When he was born in BIenheim Palace．1mperial B ritain

stood at the splendid pinnacle of her power．Yet within a feW years

the Empi re would hover on the brink of a catastrophjC new era．Here

are the fi rst fifty—eight years of the remarkable man whose cou

rageous vision guided the destiny of those darkly troubled

times—and who Iooms today as one of the greatest figu res of ou r

centu ry．

List of Illustratiom

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Preamble THE LION AT BAY   

Prologue LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY

Part One HEADWATERS，I 874—1 895

Part Two STREAM，1895一I901   

Part Three RIVER，1901一1914   

Part Four CATARACT，1914—1918

Part Five OXBOW，1918—1932   

Acknowledgments

Source Notes

Select Bibliography   

Copyright Acknowledgments   

Index   

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书籍介绍

William Manchester met Winston Churchill on January 24, 1953. Their encounter on the Queen Mary sparked an intense curiosity in Manchester that would eventually result in his classic three-volume magnum 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. Born of a lovely, wanton American mother and a gifted but unstable son of a duke, his childhood was one of wretched neglect. He sought glory on the battlefields of Cuba, Sudan, India, South Africa and the trenches of France. 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. Yet, as Chancellor of the Exchequer he plunged England into economic crisis, and his fruitless attempt to suppress Gandhi's quest for Indian independence brought political chaos to Britain.

Throughout, Churchill learned the lessons that would prepare him for the storm to come, and as the 1930's began, he readied himself for the coming battle against Nazism--an evil the world had never before seen. (1983)