The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965.

MANCHESTER, William; Paul Reid.

Item Number: 141346

New York: Little, Brown & Company, 2012.

First edition, early printing of the author’s final volume of his acclaimed trilogy. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Paul Reid, whom the author chose to finish the volume following his death in 2004. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Matt Tanner.

"Manchester has such control over a huge and moving narrative, such illumination of character . . . that he can claim the considerable achievement of having assembled enough powerful evidence to support Isaiah Berlin’s judgment of Churchill as ‘the largest human being of our time" (The New Yorker).