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The Splendid and the Vile - A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz (Hardcover)
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The Splendid and the Vile - A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz (Hardcover)
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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Every time Churchill took to the
airwaves it was as if he were injecting adrenaline-soaked courage
directly into the British people ... Larson tells the story of how
that feat was accomplished ... Fresh, fast and deeply moving.' New
York Times A STARTLING, GRIPPING PORTRAIT OF WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE
ALIVE IN BRITAIN DURING THE BLITZ, AND WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE
AROUND CHURCHILL. On Winston Churchill's first day as prime
minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and
Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was
just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, the Nazis would
wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons and
destroying two million homes. In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik
Larson gives a new and brilliantly cinematic account of how
Britain's most iconic leader set about unifying the nation at its
most vulnerable moment, and teaching 'the art of being fearless.'
Drawing on once-secret intelligence reports and diaries, #1
bestselling author Larson takes readers from the shelled streets of
London to Churchill's own chambers, giving a vivid vision of true
leadership, when - in the face of unrelenting horror - a leader of
eloquence, strategic brilliance and perseverance bound a country,
and a family, together.
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