Churchill's first year as Prime Minister, told through diaries and private documents -- the Blitz, the Battle of Britain, and how one man convinced a nation it could survive what was coming.
About This Book
#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 “One of [Erik Larson’s] best books yet . . . perfectly timed for the moment.”—Time “A bravura performance by one of America’s greatest storytellers.
Who This Is For
Best for readers who want to be kept on edge: propulsive, twisty, and hard to put down. The writing rewards attention without being demanding, a good balance of depth and readability. The pacing is balanced, time to breathe between moments that matter. Readers who prefer character depth over plot drive may find it thin.
Best Read When
Best read when you're in the mood for something tense and impossible to put down, and a read that's balanced and absorbing.
What It Explores
The Splendid and the Vile explores war and its costs — both during and long after, power and ambition and what they cost the people who pursue them, survival and what extreme circumstances ask of people, and family in all its complexity — inherited and chosen.
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