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    <body><![CDATA[This book, second volume of a never-finished three volume biography of Winston Churchill, is simply the best biography I've ever read.  That's hardly a fitting review of the book, but it's both true and a good place to start.  I stumbled onto it completely by accident on vacation in Buenos Aires, al...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28483283">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great story perhaps as well told as it can be.   This was an era when Churchill, althoug politically discredited, worked secretly to build a British espionage service in Europe, build ties to Franklin Roosevelt and speak out forcefully against the policies of Chamberlain and his predecessors.   When...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64611644">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Fantastic follow up to the first volume, laying out the life and times of Winston Churchill.  This covers the critcal years, when Churchill's warnings of the growning Nazi threat was ignored.  I was sorry to come to the end of this book, and sorry too that Manchester was unable to complete the third...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73352817">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[if you love biographies, get this one (both vol. 1 and 2). the most soaring prose that rivals that of churchill himself. read especially the love letters to his wife, they revealed a side of churchill mostly unknown to the public and moved me to tears.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The story of Winston Churchhill - the title says it all as Churchill sticks to his principles and works with FDR to defeat Hitler and save western civilization...not a bad way to be remembered, when you think about it !]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The second of Manchesters &quot;Churchill&quot; biography.  It deals with his initial rise and fall in British Politics during the turn-of-the-century, ending with his being a political &quot;has-been&quot; just prior to WWII when he was the only one pointing the finger at Hitler for being the monst...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3228800">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A man larger than life and one who lived with full gusto.  He love Roosevelt and thrived on crisis.  His bon mots were without compare, at least by me.  I admire wit and humor.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is one of the best books I have read, and its relevance only increases with time.  I had not read much about Churchill  before this, and while I later read and enjoyed Volume I, it is in Volume II that the greatness of the man really comes through.  It is remarkable, and oddly comforting, to le...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3148886">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent biography of Winston Churchill. Not only did I learn more about him, but I also learned more about why and how World War II started. Fascinating.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An excellent biography of Winston Churchill. This volume details Churchill's life leading up to the start of the war. A fascinating story of how circumstance, timing and political genus made him the &quot;right man at the right time&quot;. <br/><br/>If you only care to read a single book about Chu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12335114">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Part I of a trilogy. This is one of the best bios on Churchill. Unfortunately, the author died before he finished the third book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[what these books did NOT talk about was the fact that churchill was a racist bastard. i guess it's just ~the times~]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The internal battles for power and developing a course to deal with Hitler]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The second in a planned three-volume biography of Churchill.  Unfortunately, Mansfield suffered (mental) health problems and died before ever completing the third volume, which would have covered the WWII years.<br/><br/>This volume focuses on the years when Churchill was politically marginalized....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21570981">more...</a>]]></body>
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