never appear. Now Bokmakierie brings us this good news, and I'm reminded of the days 20 years ago, reading these biographies, and the man I was then, and how much I (and the world) have changed. And I find myself eager to pick up where I left off. Good FPP, bok, thanks for bringing this to our attention. posted by seasparrow at 10:50 PM on November 10 [ 3 favorites ] I haven't read these books, but I will definitely get to them sometime. To leave the bulk of Churchill's WWII career for a third volume seems a hell of a cliffhanger, and it shows a lot of confidence in the books that cover what came before. posted by Rustic Etruscan at 10:56 PM on November 10 I've got several Manchester books including "Alone." His scorn for the French and the British pre- Churchill is relentless. I have a sort of odd relationship with Manchester and his works. My mother's family had a quite wide worship-fullness of his writing, various sections of which were foisted upon me by a grandmother, grandfather and mother who saw a girl entering into her early teens and a voracious desire to read, but with little actual attention paid to what I was actually reading. They remembered my interest in museums, and my interest in "true" books, and thus thought I would surely love his works as much as they did. I avoided them, dodged them, and hid from them until I thought I had