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

Reading a book on world war 2 right now, it's amazing how little the Brits ever considered they'd lose the war. They just armed themselves with handmade weapons like Molotov cocktails and waited to fuck up some nazi's if they ever invaded their island

Edit: If anyone is curious about the book, it's called The Last Lion by William Manchester. It's the last book in a trilogy about Winston Churchill's life and the first part of the book focuses on how Churchill came up with war strategy and basically kept the country together when they were fighting the Nazi's alone. It's absolutely fantastic.

Also I would recommend these two books https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forever_War
and https://www.amazon.com/Last-Lion-Churchill-Defender-1940-1965/dp/0345548639
They will enlighten you as to the aspect of personal integrity in the face of adversity. Taking the right and honorable path despite personal pain and sacrifice but at the same time not abandoning who you are or becoming a pleb. This music I find most inspirational also https://youtu.be/KkM71JPHfjk

Bull shit. when? where?

Edit: I am wrong. according to this biography he did hold a view similar to the quote, but he never said exactly that.

He might not have acted drunk, but he was definitely drinking a lot. He woke up to a watered down brandy, and drank several watered down brandies all through the day. At both lunch and dinner he would drink champagne and brandy, and he would imbibe heavily after dinner.

I recently finished Volume III of The Last Lion, which dedicated a lot of space to Churchill's true drinking habits. He was definitely a high-functioning alcoholic.

I'm not trying to disparage Churchill -- he's my hero, in fact. He came from a different time during which it was acceptable for English aristocrats to drink heavily.