The Death of a President, his book on the assassination of John Kennedy, is tremendously moving his memoir of the Pacific war, Goodbye Darkness, was his personal favorite, and is widely acclaimed, though critics have said it is somewhat inventive. (Simon Schama, below, calls it “rhinestone studded prose,” but that prose in the 1980s brought more people to Churchill than anyone.) I suspect though that he loved his prose even more than his readers did. Manchester was a lyrical, beautiful writer. There is a vast difference between the two, but Gilbert is the source on which most scholars rely. But if you are “slogging” through Manchester, you may find Gilbert a tougher challenge. Churchill by Randolph Churchill and Martin Gilbert different? -M.A., Breaux Bridge, Louisiana.Ī: For me that is a beach ball of a pitch, because I am well acquainted with both. How is Hillsdale’s eight-volume Winston S. Q: I’ve been slogging through the William Manchester Churchill trilogy, The Last Lion. Late in his life Sir Martin generously wrote to Manchester: “Our work proceeds along parallel tracks.” William Manchester (l.) Martin Gilbert (r.).
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