The Splendid and the Vile: a saga of Churc hill\, family and defiance during The Blitz
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\n"On Winston Churchill's first day a s prime minister\, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechosl ovakia 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 the cou ntry together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally - and willing to fight to the end. In "The Splendid and the V ile"\, Erik Larson shows\, in cinematic detail\, how Churchill taught the British people "the art of being fearless." It is a story of political bri nkmanship\, but it's also an intimate domestic drama set against the backd rop of Churchill's prime-ministerial country home\, Chequers\; his wartime retreat\, Ditchley\, where he and his entourage go when the moon is brigh test and the bombing threat is highest\; and of course\, 10 Downing Street in London. Drawing on diaries\, original archival documents\, and once-se cret intelligence reports - some released only recently - Larson provides a new lens on London's darkest year through the day-to-day experience of C hurchill and his family."-- Provided by publisher.
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