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Article posted: 11/14/2012 6:00 AM

Last volume of Churchill bio highlights finest hours

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"The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965" by William Manchester and Paul Reid.

ASSOCIATED PRESS/LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY

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The long-awaited third and last volume of William Manchester's masterful biography of Winston Churchill covers the final 25 years of the subject's life — nearly as long as it took to research and write the book. It was worth the wait for the detailed research, sharp analysis and sparkling prose. The focus, of course, is World War II, and the book doubles as a history of the conflict.