The first volume of William Manchester's biography of Winston Spencer Churchill, "The Last Lion," packed a freighted load in 1983. Subtitled "Visions of Glory, 1874-1932," it presented his lonely childhood; his early military and literary exploits in India, Afghanistan and South Africa; his precocious entry into politics and rapid rise; his equally rapid fall after the disastrous Dardanelles campaign of World War I; his abandonment of the Liberal Party; and his resignation from the Tory leadership over a difference of opinion on granting India a small degree of sovereignty.
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