Yasmin’s Reviews > The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Defender of the Realm, 1940-1965 > Status Update

I'm disgusted by FDR's mistreatment of Churchill who held the line against the Nazis for years and bent over backwards for Roosevelt. FDR's and Eisenhower's and Truman's naïveté vis a vis Stalin is beyond frustrating. Churchill was the only one clear-eyed about the Russian threat.

Poland is a tragic story. Dismembered, massacred, thrown to the Russian wolves, trapped behind the Iron Curtain.

I’m listening to it on audiobook while I work so I miss a lot, but have learned so much regardless. You really get a sense of just how alone and desperate Britain was in the first two years of the war. I was getting rather worked up against FDR.