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Description of  The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz, UK Edition

The #1 New York Times bestselling author delivers a startlingly fresh portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz. On Winston Churchills 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 Britains most iconic leader set about unifying the nation at its most vulnerable moment, and teaching the art of being fearless. Larson follows Churchill as prime minister through the fraught meeting rooms, streets and air raids of Londons darkest year, and Churchill as family man into his home, where tensions were just as complicated: his wife, Clementine their daughters, Sarah, Diana, and the youngest, Mary, who chafed against her parents wartime protectiveness their son, Randolph his beautiful, unhappy wife, Pamela her illicit lover, a dashing American emissary and the cadre of close advisors who comprised Churchills Secret Circle. Drawing on once-secret intelligence reports and diaries, The Splendid and the Vile takes readers out of todays political dysfunction and back to a time 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. Enjoy . No any convert or low quality!