The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

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Hitler at this time was beginning his campaign to rearm Germany in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles, which had ended

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Where Chamberlain—the Old Umbrella, the Coroner—was staid and deliberate, the new prime minister, true to his reputation, was flamboyant, electric, and wholly unpredictable. One of Churchill’s first acts was to appoint himself minister of defense, which prompted an outgoing official to write in his diary, “Heaven help us.” The post was a new one, t

the Great War.