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The splendid and the vile : a saga of Churchill, family, and defiance during the blitz

By: Contributor(s): Material type: SoundSoundPublisher: [New York] : Penguin Random House, [2020]Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 14 audio discs (17 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 9780593167168
  • 0593167163
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 940.54/2121 23
LOC classification:
  • DA566.9.C5 L326 2020ab
Read by John Lee, with a note read by the author.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 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.
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AUD CD AUD CD Chamberlin Free Public Library Audio CD 940.54 LAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34480000573232

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Read by John Lee, with a note read by the author.

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.

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