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The splendid and the vile : a saga of Churchill, family, and defiance during the Blitz / Erik Larson.
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."
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593167175
- ISBN: 0593167171
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file (18 hr.)) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [New York, New York] : Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, [2020]
- Copyright: ℗2020
Content descriptions
| Formatted Contents Note: | Bleak Expectations -- The Rising Threat -- A Certain Eventuality -- Dread -- Blood and Dust -- The Americans -- Love Amid the Flames -- One Year to the Day -- Epilogue. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by John Lee with a note read by the author. |
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| Subject: | Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965. Prime ministers > Great Britain > Biography. World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Great Britain. World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Great Britain. |
| Genre: | Downloadable audio books. Biographies. Audiobooks. |
