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Feb 25, 2020 · 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 ...
A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz—an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis.
Feb 25, 2020 · Erik Larson is the author of six New York Times bestsellers, most recently The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, which examines how Winston Churchill and his “Secret Circle” went about surviving the German air campaign of 1940-41.
Mar 2, 2020 · Erik Larson wrote a book about Winston Churchill, the British prime minister whose inspiring speeches led the U.K. through World War II. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) WINSTON CHURCHILL:...
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.
Feb 25, 2020 · By Erik Larson. In the winter of 1940, as Germany’s brutal bombing campaign against Britain dragged on, Joseph Goebbels poured out his frustrations in his diary. “When will that creature...
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Apr 15, 2020 · In The Splendid and the Vile, Larson turns his pen to Winston Churchill’s harrowing first year as U.K. prime minister during World War II — a period when continental Europe had already been...
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Mar 5, 2020 · In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson gives a new and brilliantly cinematic account of how Britain’s most iconic leader set about unifying the nation at its most vulnerable moment, and teaching ‘the art of being fearless.’.
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May 3, 2023 · In his book, Eric Larson describes the daily life of Churchill, his family and ordinary citizens during the darkest year in the history of London in the 20th century, based on diaries, archival documents and declassified intelligence reports, some of which have become available to historians only recently.
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 “the art of being fearless.”
