![]() ![]() ![]() 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. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. ![]() PopMatters On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium.“A bravura performance by one of America’s greatest storytellers.”-NPR NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review.The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz-an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis “One of best books yet.Description: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ![]()
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