Nobody could put it in context like I can. But what I can't get people to understand is that nobody else can write it. His view at the time was that "I have all the research done for the rest of the third volume, a hell of a lot, to the end of Churchill's life. At the time of this announcement, he had completed about 100,000 words of the third volume and had declined approximately twelve inquiries from potential collaborators to complete the book. The strokes severely impaired his ability to write, resulting in his announcement, in August 2001, that he would be unable to complete the third volume. Manchester died at the age of 82 on June 1, 2004, after suffering for several years from two strokes, following the death of his wife in 1998. This is the final volume of the late William Manchester's trilogy about the life of Winston Churchill. The 1232-page volume was published in 2012. The 756-page volume was published in 1988.ĭefender of the Realm, 1940–1965 In 2011, the book was placed on Time magazine's top 100 non-fiction books written in English since 1923. The 973-page volume was published in 1983. The cover of the first US edition of the third volume
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