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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz Tapa dura - 2020
de Erik Larson
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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.
Detalles
- Título The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
- Autor Erik Larson
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Páginas 608
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Crown Publishing Group (NY)
- Fecha de publicación 2020-02-25
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780385348713 / 0385348711
- Peso 2 libras (0.91 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.5 pulgadas (23.62 x 16.26 x 3.81 cm)
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Temas
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Churchill, Winston, Prime ministers - Great Britain
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2019045028
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Reseñas en medios
Citas
- Booklist, 02/01/2020, Page 18
- Kirkus Reviews, 02/01/2020, Page 86
- Library Journal, 02/01/2020, Page 98
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 10/01/2019, Page 64
- Publishers Weekly, 02/17/2020, Page 0
- Shelf Awareness, 03/06/2020, Page 0
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