{"product_id":"splendid-and-the-vile-a-saga-of-churchill-family-and-defiance-during-the-blitz","title":"Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e#1 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBESTSELLER ‚Ä¢ The author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Devil in the White City\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDead Wake\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz‚Äîan inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚ÄúOne of [Erik Larson‚Äôs] best books yet . . . perfectly timed for the moment.‚Äù‚Äî\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTime\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e ‚Ä¢ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚ÄúA bravura performance by one of America‚Äôs greatest storytellers.‚Äù‚ÄîNPR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚Ä¢ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eTime \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚Ä¢ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eVogue\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e ‚Ä¢ NPR ‚Ä¢ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Washington Post ‚Ä¢ Chicago Tribune\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e ‚Ä¢ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Globe \u0026amp; Mail ‚Ä¢ Fortune\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e ‚Ä¢ Bloomberg ‚Ä¢ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Post ‚Ä¢ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe New York Public Library ‚Ä¢ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e ‚Ä¢ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLibraryReads \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚Ä¢ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePopMatters\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn Winston Churchill‚Äôs 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‚Äîand willing to fight to the end.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Splendid and the Vile\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Erik Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how Churchill taught the British people ‚Äúthe art of being fearless.‚Äù It is a story of political brinkmanship, but it‚Äôs also an intimate domestic drama, set against the backdrop of Churchill‚Äôs 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‚Äîsome released only recently‚ÄîLarson provides a new lens on London‚Äôs 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‚Äô wartime protectiveness; their son, Randolph, and his beautiful, unhappy wife, Pamela; Pamela‚Äôs illicit lover, a dashing American emissary; and the advisers in Churchill‚Äôs ‚ÄúSecret Circle,‚Äù to whom he turns in the hardest moments.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Splendid and the Vile\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e takes readers out of today‚Äôs political dysfunction and back to a time of true leadership, when, in the face of unrelenting horror, Churchill‚Äôs eloquence, courage, and perseverance bound a country, and a family, together.\u003c\/span\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e div\u0026gt;\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Crown Publishing Group (NY)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50111201083677,"sku":"9780385348737","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9780385348737.jpg?v=1751041791","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/splendid-and-the-vile-a-saga-of-churchill-family-and-defiance-during-the-blitz","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}