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Born of a lovely, wanton american mother and a gifted but unstable son of a duke, his childhood was one of wretched neglect. Alone, 193240 ebook published november 6th 2012 by little, brown and company ebook, 816 pages. Defender of the realm, 19401965 ebook read online download at. Spanning the years 1940 to 1965, defender of the realm, the third volume of william manchesters the last lion, picks up shortly after winston churchill became prime ministerwhen his tiny island nation. Churchills war years followed by his coda as a conservative prime minister in the early 1950s constitute the greatest tale of the 20th century, one of.
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