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In "The Splendid and the Vile," Erik Larson, the author of such earlier books as "In the Garden of Beasts" and "The Devil in the White City," tells the story of how that feat was ...

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Ostensibly, it mirrors his best-selling books — among them, "The Splendid and the Vile" and "The Devil in the White City" — with the same pulpy, black-and-white cover treatment and ...

Erik Larson '78JRN is known for looking at history through a novelistic lens — for recreating the intimate details behind pivotal moments. His 2015 bestseller Dead Wake detailed "the myriad forces, large and achingly small" that resulted in the sinking of the Lusitania. The Devil in the White City recounted the true tale of a serial killer at the 1893 World's Fair.

The Splendid and the Vile. A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz. By Erik Larson. Purchase. There are countless books about World War II, but there's only one Erik Larson. The ...

A captivating history of Churchill's heroic year, with more than the usual emphasis on his intimates. The bestselling author deals with one of the most satisfying good-vs.-evil battles in history, the year (May 1940 to May 1941) during which Churchill and Britain held off Hitler. Bookshelves groan with histories of Britain's finest hour ...

The Splendid and the Vile is a masterful work of narrative non-fiction and is up to the high standards I have come to expect from Erik Larson. I have previously read five of the author's works and this one is of the same superior quality. ... This book was provided by the publisher for review through the Netgalley program. aviation biography ...

Review: The Splendid and the Vile. The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson. New York: Crown, 2020. Summary: A day to day narrative of the first year as prime minister of Winston Churchill, focusing on the circle around him as well as how he inspired a nation fighting alone under the Blitz. There are a number of biographies of Winston Churchill ...

The Splendid and the Vile A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz #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 Blitz—an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis "One of [Erik Larson's] best books yet . . . perfectly ...

The Splendid and the Vile reveals the dangers of an author parachuting into a dramatic moment of British history without a full understanding of the context. Booklist (starred review) Larson's skill at integrating vast research and talent for capturing compelling human dramas culminate in an inspirational portrait of one of history's finest ...

Readers found The Splendid and the Vile to be a highly engaging work of non-fiction… Far from being a ponderous tome of non-fiction, this book reads more like a thrilling novel. Larson zeroes in on a critical year in WWII history, breathing life and insight into Churchill, his family and close associates.

It was a book I gave — and continue to give — to friends fascinated by, or compelled to learn more about, the apocalypse that was World War II, by far my favorite historical period to explore. So it was with much anticipation that I approached Larson's The Splendid and the Vile , an account of the Blitz, the Battle of Britain, and Winston ...

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz, by Erik Larson, Crown, New York, 2020, $32. Erik Larson, author of the best-selling historical novels Dead Wake and The Devil in the White City, relates the heroic saga of Winston Churchill's Britain during the Nazi Blitz.Stretching from May 1940 to May 1941 in German accounting, the Blitz coincided with ...

The book is what's been said of Larson's earlier works: "addictively readable.". Subtitled "A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz," The Splendid and the Vile, over ...

The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson was released earlier this year in February 2020. I read Larson's fantastic book The Devil in the White City a couple years back and absolutely loved it, so I've been wanting to read another one of his books.. Unfortunately, while this is a solid book about WWII in many respects, I was pretty underwhelmed by it overall.

About The Splendid and the Vile #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 Blitz—an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis "One of [Erik Larson's] best books yet . . . perfectly timed for the moment."—

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz. Erik Larson, 2020. Crown Publishing. 608 pp. ISBN-13: 9780385348713. Summary. On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two ...

Erik Larson is the author of six New York Times bestsellers, most recently The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, which examines how Winston Churchill and his "Secret Circle" went about surviving the German air campaign of 1940-41. Larson's The Devil in the White City is set to be a Hulu limited series; his In the Garden of Beasts is under option ...

Erik Larson's latest book, The Splendid and the Vile, contains an optimistic message for today's anxiety-challenged readers ... The book is hefty enough to last through a two-week quarantine and is peppered with enough new facts, including the tonnage of marmalade destroyed by Nazi bombs, to make the pages turn rapidly ...

There are many things to admire about The Splendid and the Vile, but chief among them is Larson's electric writing. The book reads like a novel, and even though everyone (hopefully) knows how the war ultimately ended, he keeps the reader turning the pages with his gripping prose.

I've read very little non-fiction about history, but The Splendid and the Vile reads like a story. And stories speak to me. "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 ...

For this, there is no better book right now than The Splendid and the Vile." — Mackenzie Dawson, New York Post "Nonfiction king Erik Larson is back." — PopSugar "Spectacular . . . Larson, as America's most compelling popular historian, is at his best in this fast-moving, immensely readable, and even warmhearted account of the ...

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, Chequers; his wartime retreat, Ditchley ...

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