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THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE - ERIK LARSON GEBUNDEN

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  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 "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 advisers in Churchill's "Secret
Circle " to whom he turns in the hardest moments.   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.

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