![]() Nor can Churchill's relationships with his children-notably, Randolph and Sarah-be deemed much of a success. ![]() For instance, Churchill's preparedness campaign suffered a serious setback when -with more loyalty than judgment-he espoused the cause of Edward VIII during the abdication crisis. But, while devoting detailed attention to where and how Churchill's contemporaries went wrong, Manchester does not overlook his subject's faults. With anguished memories of the nation's WW I losses, the ruling Conservatives made appeasement a keystone of British foreign policy. Until the eleventh hour, though, he was a prophet largely without honor in his own country-and party. Churchill spoke out forcefully in the House of Commons and wrote scores of articles against Hitler and the Nazi threat. Though a parliamentary backbencher without ministerial portfolio, the sometime insider managed to stay remarkably well informed on Germany's secret rearmament and its territorial ambitions throughout the 1930's. Sympathetically portrayed here as "the last of England's great Victorian statesmen" for his staunch defense of the empire and its values, Churchill did not beweep his outcast state. ![]() ![]() The second volume in Manchester's masterly three-part biography (Visions of Glory, 1874-1932 1983) of Winston Churchill, which now limns as well as lionizes the aging Tory during his political exile. ![]()
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