The Last Lion: Defender of the Realm is the final volume of William Manchester’s trilogy about the life of Winston Churchill. It is currently being completed at the request of Manchester by Paul Reid, a former feature writer for Cox Newspapers.

WOOHOOO!!!!!

Last summer, I read the first two of a three-part biography by William Manchester of Winston Churchill. Each book is, christ, about as long as War and Peace. Manchester died before finishing the third book, and every thing I read on the net after finishing the second book seemed to support the notion that the third book would be left unfinished, and unpublished.

Then, tonight, I came across some new information while scanning Manchester’s wikipedia page. I, of course, don’t know if it’s accurate, but I certainly hope so.

I love the line: “is likely to be published posthumously.” Well, duh. If Manchester’s dead, it can’t be published any other way, now can it?