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The splendid and the vile [large type] : a saga of Churchill, family, and defiance during the Blitz / Erik Larson.

by Larson, Erik, 1954- author.

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[New York] : Random House Large Print, [2020]

Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965.

Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Biography.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Great Britain.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.

9780593172070 (large print ; paperback)

0593172078 (large print ; paperback)

xiii, 1015 pages (large print) : map ; 24 cm

First large print edition.

Bleak expectations -- The rising threat -- A certain eventuality -- Dread -- Blood and dust -- The Americans -- Love amid the flames -- One year to the day -- Epilogue. As time went by.

Draws on personal diaries, archival documents and declassified intelligence in a portrait of Winston Churchill that explores his day-to-day experiences during the Blitz and his role in uniting England.

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 waged 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, willing to fight to the end. Larson shows how Churchill taught the British people "the art of being fearless." -- adapted from back cover

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