The splendid and the vile: a saga of Churchill, family, and defiance during the Blitz

✍ Scribed by Erik Larson

• Book ID: 100399905
• Publisher: Crown
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 546 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz
NAMED ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2020 BY The Washington Post • HuffPost • The Seattle Times • Lit Hub • The Week • PopSugar
On Winston Churchill's 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--and willing to fight to the end.
In The Splendid and the Vile , Erik Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how Churchill taught the British people...