6/11/2023 0 Comments The last lion alone![]() ![]() Manchester also saw patterns that may not have been apparent to most other writers. ![]() The documentation would not pass a professional historian’s muster, but Manchester never wrote for historians, and general readers, as always, will be taken by his boundless abilities as a storyteller. Just before Manchester ( A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance-Portrait of an Age, 1992, etc.) died in 2004, he handed over the task of finishing his Churchill biography to Reid, who retains Manchester’s habit of writing at extreme length, and it’s clear where Manchester left off in his own primary research: Though the book spans the years 1940 to Churchill’s death in 1965, roughly only one-tenth of it covers the “lion’s” last 20 years, while the vast bulk is given over-fittingly enough-to Churchill’s leadership as British prime minister during World War II. ![]() A (very) posthumous study of the late, great British leader by the late, great popular historian, aided by journalist Reid. ![]()
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