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The splendid and the vile : a saga of Churchill, family, and defiance during the blitz. / Erik Larson. [CELA]
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SoundPublisher number: DC102733 | CNIBProducer: Toronto : CNIB, 2020Publisher: Toronto : CELA, 2020Description: 1 computer optical disc (17 hr., 50 min.) : sound ; 12 cmContent type: - spoken word
- computer
- computer disc
- 9780221076275
- 0221076271
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
- Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
- 1939-1945
- Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Great Britain
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Grande-Bretagne
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Campagnes et batailles -- Grande-Bretagne
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Aspect social -- Grande-Bretagne
- Military campaigns
- Prime ministers
- Social aspects
- Great Britain
- 940.54/2121 23/eng/20231120
- DA566.9.C5 L326 2020
- af101fs
- Issued also in online resource format.
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| CELA 006 Greenlights / | CELA 007 Gutter child : a novel / | CELA 008 Vanishing hour. | CELA 009 The splendid and the vile : a saga of Churchill, family, and defiance during the blitz. / | CELA 010 Peril in Paris / | CELA 011 The switch / | CELA 012 The Paris assignment : a novel / |
Unabridged.
Narrator: John Lee.
Audio and text.
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 weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally, and willing to fight to the end. 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, where he and his entourage go when the moon is brightest and the bombing threat is highest; and of course 10 Downing Street in London. Drawing on diaries, original archival documents, and once-secret intelligence reports, some released only recently, Larson provides a new lens on London's darkest year through the day-to-day experience of Churchill and his family: his wife, Clementine; their youngest daughter, Mary, who chafes against her parents' wartime protectiveness; their son, Randolph, and his beautiful, unhappy wife, Pamela; Pamela's illicit lover, a dashing American emissary; and the advisers in Churchill's "Secret Circle," to whom he turns in the hardest moments. The Splendid and the Vile takes readers out of today's political dysfunction and back to a time of true leadership, when, in the face of unrelenting horror, Churchill's eloquence, courage, and perseverance bound a country, and a family, together. 2020
Issued also in online resource format.
DAISY reproduction. New York : Random House Audio, 2020.
Reproduced from: New York : Random House Audio, 2020. 9780593167182
Digital to DAISY.
DAISY 2.02 standard; MP3 compression at 32 kbps.
Studio original.
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