THE LAST LION: ALONE Review / DEFENDER OF THE REALM Excerpts

This is a fine book. I had not thought that I would enjoy it as much as I did, despite the fondness I hold for the first volume. But this second Manchester volume of Churchill's biography is more engaging than the first. In the first you get to know Churchill. In the second, you see what he is made of in the times of opposition. It is a more down to earth portrayal, for we see him at times forelorn, rarely triumphant. He still sits firmly upon his pedestal of greatness because he never wavered from his convictions. A great book. Miss it at your own peril.

The Churchill Center posts some excerpts from the fabled third volume DEFENDER OF THE REALM, due out this Autumn from Little Brown.
The Fall of France
Munich: A Fifty Year Perspective