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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...
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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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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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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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"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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Charlotte Browne could just kick herself. What on earth possessed her to tell the Duke of Rockford that she is a lady? But something about the duke's handsomeness and kind intelligence makes Charlotte blurt out the teeniest, tiniest falsehood. Now it's too late to admit she's just plain Charlotte of no particular importance--with cinder-stained hands, a wretched stepfather, and no prospects for marriage...Rafe Dorchester, Duke of Rockford, has done...
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After her young nephew and two nieces' parents are, drowned in a tragic sailing accident off the coast of Cornwall, the beautiful redheaded Tamara is devastated by their loss and realizes almost at once that she is the only person who can look after the three children, as she loves them so much.
She speaks to the local Solicitor, who tells her that there is no money left in her brother-in-law's estate and so she has no choice but to take the three...
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Power in the Portrayal unveils a fresh and vital perspective on power relations in eleventh- and twelfth-century Muslim Spain as reflected in historical and literary texts of the period. Employing the methods of the new historical literary study in looking at a range of texts, Ross Brann reveals the paradoxical relations between the Andalusi Muslim and Jewish elites in an era when long periods of tolerance and respect were punctuated by outbreaks...
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From bestselling and award-winning war reporter Damien Lewis and for fans of Erik Larsen's The Splendid and Vile and Alex Kershaw's The Forgotten 500 comes a thrilling account of one of the most daring raids of WWII...the true story of the race to stop Hitler from developing a top-secret weapon that would change the course of history.
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The One Thing You Can Control That Will Change Your Life is a life manual that will teach you a way to be happier and live a meaningful life. These days, it is very easy to be stressed out and unhappy. In fact, so many people are sad and full of disappointments. This also explains why we now have what you can call as a suicide culture. Unhappiness is a contagious disease, and many do not know how to free themselves from it.The One Thing You Can Control...
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