In this powerful biography, the middle volume of William Manchesters critically acclaimed trilogy, Winston Churchill wages his defining campaign: not against Hitlers war machine but against his own reluctant countrymen. Manchester contends that even more than his leadership in combat, Churchills finest hour was the uphill battle against appeasement. As Parliament received with jeers and scorn his warnings against the growing Nazi threat, Churchill stood aloneonly to be vindicated by history as a beacon of hope amid the gathering storm.