{"product_id":"the-splendid-and-the-vile-a-saga-of-churchill-family-and-defiance-during-the-blitz-9780593172070","title":"The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill  Family  and Defiance During the Blitz","description":"\u003cp\u003e#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 Blitzan inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis  One of Erik Larsons best books yet . . . perfectly timed for the moment.Time  A bravura performance by one of Americas greatest storytellers.NPR  NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review  Time  Vogue  NPR  The Washington Post  Chicago Tribune  The Globe \u0026amp; Mail  Fortune  Bloomberg  New York Post  The New York Public Library  Kirkus Reviews  LibraryReads  PopMatters  On Winston Churchills 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 allyand 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 its also an intimate domestic drama  set against the backdrop of Churchills 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 reportssome released only recentlyLarson provides a new lens on Londons 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; Pamelas illicit lover  a dashing American emissary; and the advisers in Churchills Secret Circle  to whom he turns in the hardest moments.  The Splendid and the Vile takes readers out of todays political dysfunction and back to a time of true leadership  when  in the face of unrelenting horror  Churchills eloquence  courage  and perseverance bound a country  and a family  together.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45816224940085,"sku":"ByrdShop_0593172078","price":29.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780593172070.jpg?v=1785180941","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-splendid-and-the-vile-a-saga-of-churchill-family-and-defiance-during-the-blitz-9780593172070","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}