{"id":16634,"date":"2012-11-03T20:25:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T20:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=16634"},"modified":"2012-11-04T03:51:41","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T03:51:41","slug":"the-last-lion-winston-spenser-churchill-defender-of-the-realm-1940-1965-finally-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=16634","title":{"rendered":"The Last Lion, Winston Spenser Churchill, Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 &#8212; finally released!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>[by J. Scott Shipman]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tobeortodo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Churchill.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Churchill\" src=\"http:\/\/tobeortodo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Churchill.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Last-Lion-Churchill-1940-1965\/dp\/0316547700\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1351709445&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=the+last+lion\">The Last Lion, Winston Spenser Churchill, Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965<\/a>, by William Manchester and Paul Reid<\/p>\n<p>In the 1980&#8217;s, William Manchester wrote two of three planned volumes on the life of Winston Churchill. He had notes for the final volume but illness prevented him from completing. Instead, he brought in Paul Reid to finish his masterpiece. While it took 25 years, the wait was well worth it; Reid thus far (I&#8217;m halfway through) has channelled Manchester&#8217;s style and presenting a\u00a0seamless\u00a0connection to the first two volumes.<\/p>\n<p>Strongest recommendation.<\/p>\n<p>Cross posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/tobeortodo.com\/2012\/10\/31\/the-last-lion-winston-spenser-churchill-defender-of-the-realm-1940-1965-finally-released\/\">To Be or To Do<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[by J. Scott Shipman] The Last Lion, Winston Spenser Churchill, Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965, by William Manchester and Paul Reid In the 1980&#8217;s, William Manchester wrote two of three planned volumes on the life of Winston Churchill. He had notes for the final volume but illness prevented him from completing. Instead, he brought in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232,54,420,575,222,654,102,147,673,483,574,51,618,39,295,27,445,19,91,293,297,127,530,605,153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20th-century","category-anglosphere","category-authors","category-character","category-conservativism","category-cooperation","category-diplomacy","category-diplomatic-history","category-egypt","category-extremists","category-failed-state","category-history","category-j-scott-shipman","category-military","category-nazis","category-pacific-empire","category-reading","category-recommended-reading","category-russia","category-stalin","category-stalingrad","category-strategy","category-strategy-and-war","category-tactics","category-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16634"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16638,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16634\/revisions\/16638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}