A review by sherwoodreads
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940 by William Manchester

I'm working my way through this while also reading Churchill's autobiography. Manchester has been problematical for me--I loved American Caesar but found A World Lit only by Fire to be the equivalent of a freshman paper--too full of secondary sources either imperfectly checked, or muddied by a determinedly modern worldview.

I'm liking this so far, but I do not like how frequently he offers "facts" taken from the autobiography without citing them, or checking their veracity.

Okay, I'm leaving that. The book is good enough for me to venture into the second volume, the years 1932-1940.