Sean O’s Reviews > The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 > Status Update
Sean O
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The last and probably most consequential volume of Churchill’s biography is a quite good so far, despite bringing in a new author to write up Manchester’s research.
— Mar 15, 2026 08:40AM
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Sean O
is 92% done
He read a great deal: Jane Eyre, Trollope, Candide, Wuthering Heights, 1984, Phineas Finn, C. S. Forester.
Churchill reads more Trollope than most people I know.
— Apr 18, 2026 03:51PM
Churchill reads more Trollope than most people I know.
Sean O
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“the Government whose ‘insatiable lust for power is only equalled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.’”
This resonated.
— Apr 17, 2026 01:52PM
This resonated.
Sean O
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I am reminded that Churchill coined the term “the Iron Curtin” weeks after the end of WW2. He was right about Hitler. He was right about Stalin.
— Apr 16, 2026 08:39AM
Sean O
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Heavy coverage of the war years. We are up to Operation Torch and Stalingrad.
— Apr 02, 2026 09:04AM
Sean O
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WW2 before Pearl Harbor is Britain surviving against Hitler. Over and over and over.
— Mar 20, 2026 10:17AM
