The collaboration completes the Churchill portrait in a seamless manner, combining the detailed research, sharp analysis and sparkling prose that readers of the first two volumes have come to expect.'- Associated Press

' palpable enthusiasm at thinking about Churchill demonstrates once again.the grip this iconic figure can still exercise on the his journalist's eye to pick up on small details or points of color that illustrate a wider truth.'- Richard Aldous, New York Times Book Review This is popular history at its most stirring. 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. The long-awaited final volume of William Manchester's legendary biography of Winston Churchill.

The last lion defender of the realm