TY  - BOOK
AU  - Erik Larson
TI  - The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
SN  - 9780008274948
U1  - 940.542 LAR 
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London
PB  - William Collins
KW  - Churchill, Winston, 1874-1965
N1  - Includes Bibliography and Index
N2  - 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 12 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
ER  -