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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz. 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 would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000...
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Get the Summary of Erik Larson's The Splendid and the Vile in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: 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,...
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Insights from Erik Larson's The Splendid and the Vile. Sample Insights:
1) In 1940, Adolf Hitler's armies had invaded much of Europe, which led to a rebellion in the British House of Commons against the prime minister of the United Kingdom, Neville Chamberlain.
2) The rebels believed Chamberlain was not up to the task of leading his country during World War II. Chamberlain later resigned and Winston Churchill, the first lord of the Admiralty, took...
4) Book club kit: The splendid and the vile :a saga of Churchill, family, and defiance during the blitz
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz. 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 would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000...
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Book club discussion kit featuring The Splendid and the Vile: "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz. 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,...
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"On November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter. Master storyteller Erik Larson...
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Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America's rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair's brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country's most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who,...
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"A historical thriller by the Pulitzer and National Book Award-winning author that tells the riveting story of the Klan's rise to power in the 1920s, the cunning con man who drove that rise, and the woman who stopped them. The Roaring Twenties -- the Jazz Age -- has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, the Ku Klux Klan. Their domain was not the old Confederacy, but the Heartland...
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As World War I rages in continental Europe, two New York heiresses, Sydney and Brooke Sinclair, are due to set sail for England. Brooke is engaged to marry impoverished aristocrat Edward Thorpe-Tracey, the future Lord Northbrook, in the wedding of the social calendar. Sydney has other adventures in mind; she is drawn to the burgeoning suffragette movement, which is a constant source of embarrassment to her proper sister. As international tempers flare,...
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The Hitler Family Then and Now
Join author David Gardner as he traces the genealogy of history's most notorious dictator in this revelatory World War 2 biography
A family history haunted by a sinister past. The name Hitler is remembered around the world as the Nazi leader responsible for the deadliest war in modern history. But what about those who share the same last name? Who was the Hitler family, and where are they now? Crime journalist David...
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10 maja 1940 Winston Churchill obejmuje funkcję Premiera Rządu Jego Królewskiej Mości. W inauguracyjnej mowie padają słynne słowa "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat" (Nie mam do zaoferowania nic, tylko krew, trud, łzy i pot). I słowa te będą wyznacznikiem polityki Churchilla na kolejnych pięć lat. Lecz teraz jest jeszcze rok 1940, sierpień. Winston Churchill wchodzi na dach, by oglądać bombardowanie miasta. Mimo...
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