ANNOTATION

The long-awaited second volume of the best Churchill biography reveals the true portrait of this ambitious world leader. Discussion centers on the alarm he sounded about the terrible plot being hatched inside Hitler's deranged mind. Two 8-page photos inserts.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

ALONE is the second volume in William Manchester's projected three-volume biography of Winston Churchill. In it Manchester challenges the assumption that Churchill's finest hour was as a wartime leader.

During the years 1932-1940, he was tested as few men are. Pursued by creditors, he remained solvent only by his writing. He was disowned by his party, dismissed by the establishment as a warmonger and twice nearly lost his seat in Parliament. Churchill stood alone against Nazi aggression and the British policy of appeasement.

Manchester brings new insight to this complex, fascinating period of history without ever losing sight of Churchill the man--a man with limitations--but a man whose vision was global and whose courage was boundless.

SYNOPSIS

For years, Churchill warned the British government against the growing Nazi threat. For years he was ignored. Politically isolated in Parliament, sometimes jeered at and scorned, Churchill stood alone, a beacon of reality amid the gathering storm. This book tells of perhaps the Last Lion's finest hour in the historical context not only of the 1930s, on which this volume focuses, but of the events that preceded the decade. In the Author's notes Manchester writes:
``In the view of this writer, there can be no enlightening life which does not include an account of the man's times. This need for context is even greater when the central figure is a towering statesman. It is impossible to understand Churchill and his adversaries in the 1930s, for example, without grasping the British revulsion against the horrors of World War I.''