The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
by Erik Larson
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
The Liberation Trilogy Box Set: An Army at Dawn, The Day of Battle, The Guns at Last Light
“So we had won after all!” Churchill remembered exulting on getting the news from Hawaii. “[T]he United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death.” “[S]illy people” had thought Americans too soft, too talkative, too paralyzed by their politics to be anything more than “a vague blur on the horizon to friend or foe.” But I had studied
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