Paul Reid, Co-author, "The Last Lion"

Our guest for 90 minutes is Paul Reid, co-author, with William Manchester of the third and final volume of the historical trilogy "The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965." Reid tells how he met and befriended co-author William Manchester who then invited Reid to complete the third volume of the book. He describes how he blended the hundreds of pages Manchester completed before his death, with Reid's own research to produce the biography of the final twenty-five years of Winston Churchill's life.

[@lonesomeonrymean9216]

TLL is one of the best biographies I’ve ever read. Mr. Reid did a masterful job, no small shoes to fill for a true master. RIP Mr. Manchester

[@JohnMiller-oz7gv]

Has Brian Lamb received the Medal of Freedom yet.

[@antonbacha2397]

OMG! His voice! It never gets old.

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[@jakeadelson7607]

When you say "way after", are you talking days, months, or years?

[@Ingens_Scherz]

Heavyweight stuff.

[@thattimestampguy]

0:35 Winston Churchill did not like strangers and The Press. 1:09 Winston Churchill lived in accordance with The Ancient Greek Philosophers. 1:53 The Second Front. 2:51 Winston Churchill could be cruel and didn't know how to apologize.

[@winston678]

950 books about sir winston . and the official bio is not finished

[@AndRewUK24]

Gilbert Michaud The official biography has already been finished. Winston S Churchill, Volume VIII Never Despair 1945-1965 by Sir Martin Gilbert.

[@winston678]

a great book but it took so long to get through the three volumes 25 years .

[@davidrodgersNJ]

He also saved Western civilization. History and life are complicated, no?

[@lennarthagen3638]

this is paul

[@tristan8041]

Interviewer: What’s his favorite color?

[@winston678]

paul claudel said the same

[@ulleruprising7237]

Personally I think the third volume should have never been written. William Manchester's voice and style is obviously is what made the first two volumes special. The third volume cheapens the first two.

[@9879SigmundS]

Uller Uprising kinda of like someone finishing Beethoven’s 10th.

[@d.mavridopoulos66]

Does the third volume so blatantly fall short of the standard set by the first two ? Because I've read them, and I am thinking of buying the third.

[@JoeKenn51]

I have started the third. It is very well written.@@d.mavridopoulos66

[@burnsport1]

Pretty sure Plato believed in God. He was actually basically a monotheist from what I remember (?)

[@GoodmanMIke59]

12:40 must he say "Stah-LEEN?" "HOO-bris? (hubris = "YOU-bris")

[@mogatsamasego]

Weeks, according to my research.

[@Falloutperson]

mogatsamasego All your "research" reveals an attitude rife with defeatism and astounding historical ignorance. Never were so many words used to show so little knowledge.

[@mogatsamasego]

Reporter: Tell me, Mr. Gandhi. What do you think about western civilisation? Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.

[@CharliePutz]

Too bad he doesn't mention the thousands of French soldiers who stayed in Dunkirk to hold the Germans off so the English, of some French troops, could make it safely to England. Not all "went back to their farm"...

[@ulleruprising7237]

Well at least the UK didn't collaborate like the Vichy French did.

[@KOMET2006]

Some of those French troops who helped to hold the Germans up around the Dunkirk perimeter were colonial troops from Senegal and French North Africa.

[@jakeadelson7607]

That is nothing unusual.

[@cott2696]

A war criminal how?

[@AndRewUK24]

Max Rhodes Gallipoli anybody? Don't think so it's very questionable!!!

[@robertfeinberg748]

Henry Wallace was controversial because he was a communist. We came close to having a communist president, which wouldn't come about until Obama.

[@rosesprog1722]

Oh dear, I would have so many questions: 1- Why did you refuse all of Hitler's reasonable peace offers when you knew that the British people, Lord Halifax and so many others wanted peace including everybody in Europe and the rest of the world? Didn't you know that by continuing the war millions would die unnecessarily, that you would doom the empire and bankrupt the country and that on the other hand, by joining the Germans you would be celebrated as having rid the world from Bolshevik communism? And weren't you ashamed stealing most of those great speeches and recording them in a studio in 1949? And how do you feel about German cities and Bengalese people? How could you afford Chartwell on a mere deputy salary? Is it true you copied masterpieces and sold them in suspicious circumstances? Were you really drunk everyday? Did you know Monty had a young friend? Did you? Tell me about Brendan, the Cambridge Fife, William Forbes Sempill and the Glamour Boys... Did you ever lie to the whole world and why? Did you ever cross the Sahara on foot? Did you really massacre Boer women and children? Did you enjoy it? And finally, did you expect the monstrous crimes you committed throughout your career to eventually be revealed and that the world would finally see you for the vicious criminal monster you really were?

[@JohnAsmith-rw6uo]

Get a life comrade.

[@mogatsamasego]

Waste of effort. Churchill was a war criminal, racist and drunkard.