In the first place, Churchill's monumental ego, combined with his willful self-dramatization, tends to either overwhelm the author's own point of view, or force him into an overly critical, defensive posture. His life is so huge, so resonant with achievements, failures and contradictions, that the prospective biographer is faced, from the very start, with a host of daunting problems. He lives in North Carolina.Given his heroic posture and his heightened rhetoric, Winston Churchill seems, 18 years after his death, a kind of mythic figure. In late 2003 his friend, William Manchester, in failing health, asked Paul to complete The Last Lion: Defender of the Realm. Paul Reid is an award-winning journalist. This is popular history at its most stirring.Ībout the Authors William Manchester was a hugely successful popular historian and biographer whose books include The Last Lion, Volumes 1 and 2, Goodbye Darkness, A World Lit Only by Fire, The Glory and the Dream, The Arms of Krupp, American Caesar, The Death of the President, and assorted works of journalism. More than twenty years in the making, THE LAST LION presents a revelatory and unparalleled portrait of this brilliant, flawed, and dynamic leader. THE LAST LION brilliantly recounts how Churchill organized his nation's military response and defense compelled FDR into supporting America's beleaguered cousins, and personified the 'never surrender' ethos that helped the Allies win the war, while at the same time adapting himself and his country to the inevitable shift of world power from the British Empire to the United States.

The Churchill conjured up by William Manchester and Paul Reid is a man of indomitable courage, lightning fast intellect, and an irresistible will to action. Spanning the years of 1940-1965, THE LAST LION picks up shortly after Winston Churchill became Prime Minister-when his tiny island nation stood alone against the overwhelming might of Nazi Germany. Date: NovemAverage Customer Review: For Bulk Orders Call: 62 Description and Reviews From The Publisher: The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Volume 3: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 William Manchester and Paul Reid Format: Paperback, 1200 pp.

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