LAST LION: VISIONS OF GLORY(ISBN=9780385313483)

  When he was born in BIenheim Palace．1mperial B ritain stood at the splendid pinnacle of her power．Yet within a feW years the Empi re would hover on the brink of a catastrophjC new era．Here are the fi rst fifty—eight years of the remarkable man whose cou rageous vision guided the destiny of those darkly troubled times—and who Iooms today as one of the greatest figu res of ou r centu ry．

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List ofMaps
Preamble THE LION AT BAY   
Prologue LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY
Part One HEADWATERS，I 874—1 895
Part Two STREAM，1895一I901   
Part Three RIVER，1901一1914   
Part Four CATARACT，1914—1918
Part Five OXBOW，1918—1932   
Acknowledgments
Source Notes
Select Bibliography   
Copyright Acknowledgments   
Index