![]() ![]() It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally-and willing to fight to the end. 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. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. ![]() Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. ![]() On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review “A bravura performance by one of America’s greatest storytellers.”-NPR.The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz-an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis. ![]()
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