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Erik Larson is the author of six New York Times bestsellers, including 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. Larson’s The Devil in the White City is set to be a Hulu limited ...
Mar 3, 2021 · 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."
Larson also presents the confident Churchill of familiar lore, the man who believed he was 'walking with destiny' when objective appraisals labeled his task hopeless. Yet we also see the beleaguered leader, pensive as he admits all he has to offer the 'poor people' of Britain is death and devastation.
Mar 10, 2015 · Erik Larson's new book about the sinking of the liner Lusitania by a German U-boat in 1915 brings the past stingingly alive. Reviewer Jean Zimmerman calls Dead Wake "thrilling, dramatic and powerful."
Oct 24, 2006 · A true story of love, murder, and the end of the world’s “great hush.”In Thunderstruck, Erik Larson tells the interwoven stories of two men—Hawley Crippen, a very unlikely murderer, and Guglielmo Marconi, the obsessive creator of a seemingly supernatural means of communication—whose lives intersect during one of the greatest criminal chases of all time.Set in Edwardian London and on ...
Oct 18, 2023 · Oct. 18, 2023, at 8:51 a.m. Erik Larson's Next Book Closely Tracks the Months Leading up to the Civil War. More. Uncredited. This cover image released by Crown Publishing shows "The Demon of ...
Feb 20, 2020 · The Splendid and the Vile. A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz. By Erik Larson. Purchase. There are countless books about World War II, but there's only one Erik Larson. The ...
