By last week, readers of Churchill's LIFE and Times were more than halfway through Vol. I. From the 225,000-word text, LIFE was printing about 50,000 words, the New York Times 93,000. Extracts are running in 80 newspapers outside the U.S. (Houghton Mifflin and Book-of-the-Month Club will publish the complete text this summer). This week, Churchill turned over to LIFE and the Times Vol. II of his memoirs, covering Britain's darkest—and finest—hours, the period that saw the fall of France and the 1940 blitz on London. This second installment of his five-volume memoirs is...
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