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100 1 Larson, Erik,|d1954-|eauthor.
245 14 The splendid and the vile :|ba saga of Churchill, family,
and defiance during the blitz /|cErik Larson.
250 First edition.
264 1 New York :|bCrown,|c[2020]
300 xii, 585 pages :|bmap ;|c25 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 547-554) and
index.
505 0 Bleak Expectations -- The Rising Threat -- A Certain
Eventuality -- Dread -- Blood and Dust -- The Americans --
Love Amid the Flames -- One Year to the Day -- Epilogue.
520 "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 On Winston Churchill's 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, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign,
killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold the
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
"the art of being fearless." It is a story of political
brinkmanship, but it's also an intimate domestic drama set
against the backdrop of Churchill's 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-
some released only recently-Larson provides a new lens on
London's 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'
wartime protectiveness; their son, Randolph, and his
beautiful, unhappy wife, Pamela; Pamela's illicit lover, a
dashing American emissary; and the cadre of close advisers
who comprised Churchill's "Secret Circle," including his
lovestruck private secretary, John Colville; newspaper
baron Lord Beaverbrook; and the Rasputin-like Frederick
Lindemann. The Splendid and the Vile takes readers out of
today's political dysfunction and back to a time of true
leadership, when-in the face of unrelenting horror-
Churchill's eloquence, courage, and perseverance bound a
country, and a family, together."--|cProvided by
publisher.
590 LEASE 2020-02
590 LEASE 2020-05
590 LEASE 2020-06
600 10 Churchill, Winston,|d1874-1965.
650 0 Prime ministers|zGreat Britain|vBiography.
650 0 World War, 1939-1945|zGreat Britain.
650 0 World War, 1939-1945|xCampaigns|zGreat Britain.
650 0 World War, 1939-1945|xSocial aspects|zGreat Britain.
655 7 Biographies.|2lcgft
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