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\n #1\u00a0NEW YORK TIMES\u00a0BESTSELLER \u2022 The author of\u00a0The Devil in the White City\u00a0and\u00a0Dead Wake\u00a0delivers an\u00a0intimate chronicle\u00a0of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz\u2014an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis
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On Winston Churchill\u2019s first day as prime minister, Adolf 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, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally\u2014and willing to fight to the end.<\/p>\n

In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how Churchill taught the British people \u201cthe art of being fearless.\u201d It is a story of political brinkmanship, but it\u2019s also an intimate domestic drama, set against the backdrop of Churchill\u2019s prime-ministerial country home, Chequers; his wartime retreat, Ditchley, where he and his entourage go when the moon is brightest and the bombing threat is highest; and of course 10 Downing Street in London. Drawing on diaries, original archival documents, and once-secret intelligence reports\u2014some released only recently\u2014Larson provides a new lens on London\u2019s darkest year through the day-to-day experience of Churchill and his family: his wife, Clementine; their youngest daughter, Mary, who chafes against her parents\u2019 wartime protectiveness; their son, Randolph, and his beautiful, unhappy wife, Pamela; Pamela\u2019s illicit lover, a dashing American emissary; and the advisers in Churchill\u2019s \u201cSecret Circle,\u201d to whom he turns in the hardest moments.
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The Splendid and the Vile\u00a0takes readers out of today\u2019s political dysfunction and back to a time of true leadership, when, in the face of unrelenting horror, Churchill\u2019s eloquence, courage, and perseverance bound a country, and a family, together.

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Publisher \u200f : \u200e Crown (February 15, 2022)
Language \u200f : \u200e English
Paperback \u200f : \u200e 624 pages
ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e 0385348738
ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-0385348737
Item Weight \u200f : \u200e 2.31 pounds
Dimensions \u200f : \u200e 5.1 x 1.32 x 8 inches <\/p>\n

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