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05814cam a2200769 i 4500 001 D30CA73E7FAD11EDA612AC93263FDB2A 003 SILO 005 20221219090006 008 191011s2020 nyuab b 001 0beng 010 $a 2019045028 020 $a 0385348738 020 $a 9780385348737 020 $a 0385348711 020 $a 9780385348713 035 $a (OCoLC)1125275396 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d BLP $d IEP $d UAP $d YDX $d BDX $d HQD $d LIV $d ZGR $d YDX $d VP@ $d YU6 $d OCL $d GYG $d Z#6 $d JYJ $d TXSVP $d IL4J6 $d OCLCO $d UND $d ERASA $d O2C $d NHP $d JUA $d T2G $d LMR $d OCLCO $d DLC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a DA566.9.C5 $b L326 2020 082 00 $a 940.54/2121 $2 23 084 $a HIS027100 $a BIO011000 $a HIS027100 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Larson, Erik, $d 1954- $e author. $4 aut 245 14 $a The splendid and the vile : $b a saga of Churchill, family, and defiance during the Blitz / $c Erik Larson. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Crown, an imprint of Random House, $c [2020] 300 $a xii, 585 pages : $b illustrations, map ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 547-554) and index. 505 00 $t Epilogue: As Time Went By. $t The Rising Threat -- $t A Certain Eventuality -- $t Dread -- $t Blood and Dust -- $t The Americans -- $t Love Amid the Flames -- $t One Year to the Day -- $t Epilogue: As Time Went By. 520 $a "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 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold the 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 cadre of close advisers who comprised Churchill's "Secret Circle," including his lovestruck private secretary, John Colville; newspaper baron Lord Beaverbrook; and the Rasputin-like Frederick Lindemann. 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."-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Churchill, Winston, $d 1874-1965. 650 0 $a Prime ministers $z Great Britain $v Biography. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Great Britain. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Campaigns $z Great Britain. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Social aspects $z Great Britain. 650 6 $a Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 $0 (CaQQLa)201-0441031 $z Grande-Bretagne. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0441031 650 6 $a Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 $x Campagnes et batailles $z Grande-Bretagne. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0335517 650 6 $a Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 $0 (CaQQLa)201-0441031 $x Aspect social $0 (CaQQLa)201-0112849 $z Grande-Bretagne. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0441031 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / Military / World War II. $2 bisacsh 600 17 $a Churchill, Winston, $d 1874-1965. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01716876 650 7 $a Military campaigns. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01710190 650 7 $a Prime ministers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01076416 650 7 $a Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01354981 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 600 17 $a Churchill, Winston, $d 1874-1965. $2 nli 650 7 $a Prime ministers $z Great Britain $v Biography. $2 nli 650 7 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Great Britain. $2 nli 650 7 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Campaigns $z Great Britain. $2 nli 650 7 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Social aspects $z Great Britain. $2 nli 650 7 $a Prime ministers $z Great Britain $v Biography. $2 sears 650 7 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Great Britain. $2 sears 650 7 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Campaigns. $2 sears 650 7 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Social aspects. $2 sears 648 7 $a 1939-1945 $2 fast 655 0 $a Biography. 655 2 $a Biography $0 (DNLM)D019215 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000519 776 08 $i Online version: $a Larson, Erik, $t The splendid and the vile $d New York : Crown, [2020] $z 9780385348720 $w (DLC) 2019045029 941 $a 3 $n 1 952 $l WNPA185 $d 20240122143855.0 $n 1 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20231004093449.0 $n 13 $p 10 regular, 2 LP, 1 CD 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20221219095409.0 $n 6 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D30CA73E7FAD11EDA612AC93263FDB2A 994 $a C0 $b IOZInitiate Another SILO Locator Search