The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz Audiobook (Free)

The #1 NY Moments bestselling author delivers a startlingly fresh portrait of Winston Churchill and London through the Blitz.

On Winston Churchill’s initial day as primary minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia got already fallen, as well as the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For another twelve months, the Nazis would wage a relentless bombing marketing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons and destroying two million homes.

In The about The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance Through the Blitz Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson provides fresh and brilliantly cinematic account of how Britain’s most iconic leader go about unifying the country at its most susceptible moment, and teaching ‘the art to be fearless.’ Larson comes after Churchill as leading minister through the fraught meeting rooms, roads and air flow raids of London’s darkest year, and Churchill as family man into his house, where tensions were just as complicated: his wife, Clementine; their daughters, Sarah, Diana, and the youngest, Mary, who chafed against her parents’ wartime protectiveness; their kid, Randolph; his beautiful, unsatisfied wife, Pamela; her illicit lover, a dashing American emissary; and the cadre of close advisors who comprised Churchill’s ‘Top secret Circle’.

Drawing on once-secret intelligence reviews and diaries, The Splendid as well as the Vile calls for readers out of today’s political dysfunction and back to a time of true leadership, when – when confronted with unrelenting horror – a leader of eloquence, strategic brilliance and perseverance bound a country, and a family, together.