This is a very thoroughly researched volume, the author had access to many diaries of major players on both sides of the conflict, so we recieve a very personal view of many major events of that year. The personal lives of the Churchills is provided in much detail, along wth the details of the Battle Britain and the massive bombing that GB had to endure.
Monday, March 14, 2022
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson
The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson chronicles the first year that Winston Churchill was Prime Minister at the beginning of WW2. This was at a time that Hitler had overrun Europe and had turned his sites on defeating Britain in order to create a Nazi Europe. England was standing alone, as the US would not enter the war until the Japanese attached the US in December 1941.
