The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory 1874-1932 by William Manchester

I HAVE FINISHED THIS BOOK. I feel I should be surrounded by a cheering crowd for this. Alas, I am alone in my bed. But I feel quite accomplished.
I listened to this book on audiobook. I am not sure if I would have enjoyed it more if I had read it, I do suspect that I might not have finished it if I had gone about it that way.
This book was tremendously well researched, it’s flow from event to event is very logical, the context to the time period is immensely helpful and very interesting. That all seems like a five-star book. But I am not sure how much I retained. Mostly because I did not have a lot of knowledge of this time period in UK politics, Churchill, or a super firm framework of WW1. So until Gandhi and the bits of WW1 I know about, or the Great Depression And other American landmarks I tended to be a bit muddled about the context and order of some things.
I will 100% finish this trilogy. It is fascinating. Churchill is like one of those people who has left massive marks on the world, and reading about him is so interesting. I don’t like stan him or anything, he has done quite a lot that is 100% condemnable, but this biography of him has widened my view about him. I basically viewed him from what I saw of him through the special relationship, and British museums I visited while in London. I would quite like to go back to the war room now and look at the timeline and place this book in that framework. I feel like reinforcement would help. Maybe I will watch a documentary and then reading the next two can have more information to slot itself into.
Basically, this book was massive and full of information and my brain feels like it might explode. I guess I’m giving it 4 stars.

I gave this book 4 stars on Goodreads and finished it on July 8th, 2018.