Recommended by
- Larry Ellison — One of the books on Larry Ellison's nightstand, as recorded in Julian Guthrie's The Billionaire and the Mechanic. The Billionaire and the Mechanic (Founders episode #126) documents 'William Manchester's multivolume biography of Winston Churchill' among the books on Ellison's nightstand during the dot-com collapse source ↗
Summary
William Manchester's first volume of his three-part biography of Winston Churchill, covering his early life, his military service in India and Sudan, his dramatic escape from a Boer prisoner-of-war camp, and his rise through British politics before World War I. The volume ends in 1932 with Churchill in political exile, his warnings about Nazi Germany ignored by a country unwilling to hear them.