As long as I know the phases are take off, climb, cruise, descent, approach and landing.
All in a straight line, eh?
And the reason because I read this book is to have a quick summary of the various subjects.
You don't mind the summary being wrong as long as it's quick?
I can see this thread getting very silly.
Which might turn out to be quite an improvement.
Anyway, to discount the turns: lift produced by the wings of typical airliner doing V2+10 climbout is lesser, both in total terms and as a fraction of weight, than the lift produced by the same aeroplane during low level-off (say 5000ft as the inbound traffic to LHR jumps over you) a few minutes later. So statement "lift is generally highest at takeoff" is quite silly and most of the time false.
People struggling and failing to comprehend Newtonian mechanics shouldn't be allowed to write flying handbooks. Too bad this ban would interfere with the free market or some PC let's-respect-everyone crap.