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The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill is a trilogy of biographies covering the life of Winston Churchill. The first two were published in the 1980s by author and historian William Manchester , who died while working on the last volume.
Book One covers May through September 1792 in seven chapters. The main incident in Book One is the tragic death of Francis Poldark. France is at war with Austria and this is of considerable interest to the novel's characters, both because they wonder whether France will eventually be at war with England and also because metal needed for munitions in wars might be good for the price of the tin ...
Book Two covers December 1790 through June 1791 in fourteen chapters. [3] Book Two opens with a description of the growing distance between Ross and Demelza. When Demelza realizes that Ross will need to sell off items in order to raise money to avoid debtor's prison, she encourages him to sell a brooch he gave her, along with farmstock.
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill is a 2016 book by Candice Millard covering Winston Churchill's exploits during the Boer War. Her third book, Hero of the Empire garnered favorable response by major newspaper companies worldwide and was a winner of the 2017 Kansas Notable Book Awards .
The reception was generally good, but an unnamed colleague said, "Winston has written an enormous book about himself, and called it The World Crisis." Arthur Balfour said he was reading Churchill’s "autobiography disguised as a history of the universe". [6]
The Inside of the Cup is a 1913 best-selling novel by American writer Winston Churchill. The story was first serialized in Hearst's Magazine from April 1912 through July 1913 and was released in book form in May 1913. The best-selling book in the United States for 1913, it sparked a nationwide debate about the role of Christianity in modern life.
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[1] [2] [3] The political boss character in the book, Jethro Bass, was based on New Hampshire politician Ruel Durkee. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] A former U.S. Senator from New Hampshire, William E. Chandler , felt compelled to defend Durkee, publishing a pamphlet and writing letters to editors to claim that Durkee was a model citizen and not a model of ...