Does anyone in this group know, or have you recently heard, when the third volume of Manchester's "The Last Lion" is expected to be published? I've searched far and wide for an answer, including the Churchill Centre site, but the closest I've come is "some time in 2007," and those guesstimates were stated many months ago (including an early 2006 interview with Mr. Reid). I recently finished the first and second volumes, and am champing at the bit for the rest of the saga.
I'm new to this group, but have already found it delightfully stimulating and informative!
The following is posted on the Hachette Book Group (owners of Little, Brown) website under FAQs. It has been posted there for quite some time, so it is unclear to me whether and how the project is progressing. http://www.twbookmark.com/library/faq.html#manchester
William Manchester's The Last Lion, Volume III
William Manchester died on June 1, 2004 at the age of 82. Manchester was a true literary lion and was the author of many important bestsellers published by Little, Brown over four decades, including biographies of Douglas MacArthur, the Rockefeller family and John F. Kennedy. His last book, about life in the Middle Ages, was A World Lit Only By Fire, and it too was a New York Times bestseller. Manchester completed two volumes of a three-volume biography of Winston Churchill, and was well into the concluding volume when a stroke made writing impossible. In May 2004, Manchester appointed a cowriter to finish Volume 3 based on his outline and notes. Paul Reid, a prize-winning journalist who has written several features about Manchester, will pick up where Manchester stopped. Everyone at Little, Brown who worked with William Manchester admired his warm and forceful personality, his grasp of the great individuals and events of our times, and his commitment to the importance of serious writing.
I would also love to see Volume III of the Last Lion
Patty Greeley, Colorado
From: "Thomas Fleming" <thomas.flem...@thomson.com> Reply-To: ChurchillChat@googlegroups.com To: "ChurchillChat" <ChurchillChat@googlegroups.com> Subject: [ChurchillChat] Third Volume of "The Last Lion" Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:57:40 -0700
Does anyone in this group know, or have you recently heard, when the third volume of Manchester's "The Last Lion" is expected to be published? I've searched far and wide for an answer, including the Churchill Centre site, but the closest I've come is "some time in 2007," and those guesstimates were stated many months ago (including an early 2006 interview with Mr. Reid). I recently finished the first and second volumes, and am champing at the bit for the rest of the saga.
I'm new to this group, but have already found it delightfully stimulating and informative!
Volume 3, "Defender of the Realm," is being completed by Manchester's friend Paul Reid, a writer with the Palm Beach (Fla.) Post, who expects to complete it in 2007. Mr. Reid has recently wrote me to expect a set of proofs that he kindly asked me to read.
He writes:
'I have finished Parts One (1940) and Two (1941) and will be through Parts Three, Four and Five by mid-2007. Publication is set for sometime in 2008. Bill's notes and interviews run to thousands of pages, enough to fuel at least three more volumes. My job, therefore, is to pace this final volume. About half of it will cover 1940 and 1941, about forty-percent the remainder of the war and about 10-15 percent the post-war years. Bill saw the post-war years (or at least the last decade) as a long "afterward". Having been guided by Bill the last year of his life, and having in hand the pages he wrote (to the fall of France) I think I have a good feeling for the pace he set and where he was going. The pages Bill finished are, as was usual with William Manchester, marvelous, full of suspense and foreshadowing, a real tale beautifully told. Among many things he made clear to me was his desire that this book be an enjoyable read for younger people, people under 40 years of age who did not grow up with stories of the War percolating through their household.'
FINEST HOUR has published two excerpts from DEFENDER OF THE REALM, and you may like to get the back issues from the Centre office in Washington:
On Behalf Of Editor/Finest Hour Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 4:24 PM To: ChurchillChat Subject: [ChurchillChat] Re: Third Volume of "The Last Lion"
Volume 3, "Defender of the Realm," is being completed by Manchester's friend Paul Reid, a writer with the Palm Beach (Fla.) Post, who expects to complete it in 2007. Mr. Reid has recently wrote me to expect a set of proofs that he kindly asked me to read. He writes:
'I have finished Parts One (1940) and Two (1941) and will be through Parts Three, Four and Five by mid-2007. Publication is set for sometime in 2008. Bill's notes and interviews run to thousands of pages, enough to fuel at least three more volumes. My job, therefore, is to pace this final volume. About half of it will cover 1940 and 1941, about forty-percent the remainder of the war and about 10-15 percent the post-war years. Bill saw the post-war years (or at least the last decade) as a long "afterward". Having been guided by Bill the last year of his life, and having in hand the pages he wrote (to the fall of France) I think I have a good feeling for the pace he set and where he was going. The pages Bill finished are, as was usual with William Manchester, marvelous, full of suspense and foreshadowing, a real tale beautifully told. Among many things he made clear to me was his desire that this book be an enjoyable read for younger people, people under 40 years of age who did not grow up with stories of the War percolating through their household.'
FINEST HOUR has published two excerpts from DEFENDER OF THE REALM, and you may like to get the back issues from the Centre office in Washington:
