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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz Hardcover – February 25, 2020

by Erik Larson (Author)
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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 [Erik Larson’s] best books yet . . . perfectly timed for the moment.”—Time • “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 • Time • Vogue • NPR • The Washington Post • Chicago Tribune • The Globe & Mail • Fortune • Bloomberg • New York Post • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews • LibraryReads • PopMatters

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.

In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how Churchill taught the British people “the art of being fearless.” It is a story of political brinkmanship, but it’s also an intimate domestic drama, set against the backdrop of Churchill’s prime-ministerial country home, Chequers; his wartime retreat, Ditchley, where he and his entourage go when the moon is brightest and the bombing threat is highest; and of course 10 Downing Street in London. Drawing on diaries, original archival documents, and once-secret intelligence reports—some released only recently—Larson provides a new lens on London’s darkest year through the day-to-day experience of Churchill and his family: his wife, Clementine; their youngest daughter, Mary, who chafes against her parents’ wartime protectiveness; their son, Randolph, and his beautiful, unhappy wife, Pamela; Pamela’s illicit lover, a dashing American emissary; and the advisers in Churchill’s “Secret Circle,” to whom he turns in the hardest moments.
 
The Splendid and the Vile takes readers out of today’s political dysfunction and back to a time of true leadership, when, in the face of unrelenting horror, Churchill’s eloquence, courage, and perseverance bound a country, and a family, together.
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Customers find the historical setting fascinating, dramatic, and fresh. They also describe the book as highly readable and providing much insight and reality. Customers praise the leader as confident, brave, and decisive. They describe the content as deeply researched and making it seem alive. Readers describe the characters as grave and determined. Opinions are mixed on the pacing, with some finding it well-paced and enjoyable, while others say it's slow going.

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Customers find the book highly readable, with excellent detail on the nuances of numerous relationships. They also appreciate the vivid and colorful writing, which adds to the fascination of the book. Readers also appreciate that the book weaves together very personal lifestyle events with fairly detailed information.

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369 customers mention "Historical setting"350 positive19 negative

Customers find the historical setting fascinating, terrific, and wonderful. They also say the book is unique, with relatively brief segments on various events and situations. Readers say it portrays a very dramatic, desperate time and provides a freshness and immediacy to a familiar chapter of history. They say it helps explain the development of technologies, ideas, and various conflicts.

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"This is a great history of the first year of the role of Winston Churchill as prime minister of Great Britain from May 1940 to May 1941...." Read more

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356 customers mention "Content"329 positive27 negative

Customers find the book deeply researched, with colorful additions. They also say the author has an intelligent mind and a gift for speaking. Readers also find the descriptions of the impact on and responses of the English people excellent. They appreciate the brilliance of the narrative.

"...I thought I knew a lot about the blitz, I was wrong. This is a powerful book and well worth the read!" Read more

"...(and some would say the free world) during WWIi, was an interesting, complex, and brilliant man, though certainly flawed. As a leader, he rose..." Read more

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Customers find the characters in the book deeply human, heartfelt, and painful. They also describe the book as a thrilling, character-driven page turner. Customers also mention that the man is grave and determined, yet often childlike in his zest.

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"Well researched and documented, but reads like a novel. What an amazing man!!! One of the best history books I’ve read" Read more

"...of Larson’s work, it is part of his genius: he brings history to life with the character development, drama, and pacing of a novel...." Read more

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Customers find the book highly detailed, meticulously researched, and intimate. They say it provides a fascinating new look at Churchill, a very inside view of the challenges faced by the British, and a vivid description of the bombings that took place. They also say the book provides s clear picture of life in WWII.

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Customers find the book excellent, entertaining, and insightful into Churchill and his family. They appreciate the small personal details and perspectives. Readers are also awed by the strength of character and dedication of Churchill. They say he was the right person for the time and confident, brave, and decisive.

"...save our way of life as we knew it and needed a voice like his: confident, brave, and decisive...." Read more

"...Eric Larson's book portrays Churchill's essential leadership during one of Britain's worst trials of WWII, the Blitz...." Read more

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Customers have mixed opinions about the pacing of the book. Some find it well-paced and easy to read, while others say it's slow going and not a quick read.

"...captures the man and leader Churchill was for the UK during WWII - moves fast and gain a clear understanding of the times and people." Read more

"...It reads at a breakneck speed. At times I felt I was sitting beside Churchill sharing a big glass of Brandy with him. Splendid Read Indeed!" Read more

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Customers are dissatisfied with the book's completeness. They mention that it's missing 30 pages, 15 pages have completely fallen out of the binding, and several pages extended past others. They also say that the book is out of order and skips 335-368.

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*This review only pertains to the appearance*When I got the book, it appeared that the cover was on upside down. Upon further investigation, the cover matched the orientation of the hardback cover (picture 3). The hardback cover and the words in the book are actually flipped, if you hold the book where the cover is correct, then the book will start from the last page, and the words are flipped. Picture 4 is the inside of the book while the book is in the same orientation as picture 3, where the cover is right side up.It doesn't bother me a whole lot, and it'd actually be neat if this were one of the only cases of this happening. If you own this book as well, please let me know if this happened to you too.
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Wendy Heffington Rahman
5.0 out of 5 stars An incredible insight into WW2 from Churchill's perspective
Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2024
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This factual story pulled me in from the dry beginning. I expected it to be a bit dry because it is nonfiction, but I was so wrong. I couldn't put it down. I thought I knew a lot about the blitz, I was wrong. This is a powerful book and well worth the read!
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MK
5.0 out of 5 stars So much I never knew!
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2024
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Full of wonderful stories, descriptions, real and brave people and their private lives, struggles, and personal triumphs. Thank you, Erik Larson, for another incredible book. You remain my all-time favorite!
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Bert Sletten
4.0 out of 5 stars Churchill’s official duties and his family’s private life
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I thought this was “light” reading. Author covers the first year of Churchill’s as Prime Minister, but mixes Churchill’s official duties and his family’s private life. This is not something I was expecting, but Larson seems to make it work.
It would be interesting to read of other “great” people’s life this way, perhaps Rosevelt’s, but it seems unlikely that other greats would have left the diaries and private papers, etc. to write such a book.
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Stephanie W.B.
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding biography of Churchill's first year as Prime Minister, during WWII's "The Blitz"
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2021
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Outstanding biographical portrait of Winston Churchill's first year as Prime Minister of Great Britain. This is also the year of "The Blitz": the Nazi Germany Luftwaffe's sustained air attack of Great Britain-specifically England and Scotland. While all of England and parts of Scotland were bombed, London, as the capital of England, sustained constant devastating bombing. Larson's book describes Winston Churchill's experience by using the words and stories of his family, friends, employees, political allies and enemies, and interestingly, his war allies and enemies. Larson is able to provide a detailed portrait of Great Britain's first year at war, from the details of Britain's Exploratory Forces and the evacuation at Dunkirk to the defeat at Tofrek and finally, the presence of the United States in the war, from the transfer of 50 ships of questionable value in return for the use of Great Britain's naval bases to the emergence of Roosevelt's Lend-Lease program, until finally, the entrance of the U.S. in the war as after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Post Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and Germany, as part of the Axis powers: Germany, Italy, and Japan, declared war on the United States. One of the most interesting details about the book is that Larson ends the book just as the U.S. enters the war.
Although the book is well-documented non-fiction, it reads like a novel. The impressions that present in form of dialogue documented in published papers and books in addition to quotations from the diaries and journals of Churchill's family and subordinates as well as the recorded wartime impressions from more both famous literary figures and more ordinary Englishpeople.
Larson does an excellent job detailing the nuances of numerous relationships in the book without making the book overly complicated or confusing. The way he chronicles Churchill's courtship of Roosevelt is fascinating; as are the relationships of Pamela Digby Churchill (Harriman), his daughter cinemas, who carried out an affair with W. Averell Harriman, Roosevelt's special envoy to Churchill and subsequently, Station. (In a fascinating turn of events, Pamela and Harriman end up marrying each other much later in life). Detailed portrayals of the people surrounding Churchill are fascinating, and Larson explores Churchill's relationships with the people surrounding him, rather like planets orbiting the sun. Winston Churchill, who carried the weight of Great Britain (and some would say the free world) during WWIi, was an interesting, complex, and brilliant man, though certainly flawed. As a leader, he rose
to a challenge that seemed insurmountable. Churchill had the ability to inspire people that few could match. Extraordinarily, this ability was perhaps matched by one of his contemporaries, F.D.R. Without these two men as leaders during WWII, it is questionable whether democracy would have prevailed at the conclusion of the war. Erik Larson's The Splendid and Vile captures his subject, Winston Churchill, in a brilliant and interesting way. I highly recommend this book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars intriguing
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2024
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A wonderful historical novel that captures the man and leader Churchill was for the UK during WWII - moves fast and gain a clear understanding of the times and people.
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Ellen Bob
5.0 out of 5 stars engrossing, as always
Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2024
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Mr. Larson bring to life characters I have only known through history books. And introduces characters I never knew existed….Lord Beaverbrook, being only one of many. The details and nuances are utterly fascinating. A must read if you like history.
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J. Groen
5.0 out of 5 stars Great History of the First Year of Churchill's Prime Minister Role
Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2024
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This is a great history of the first year of the role of Winston Churchill as prime minister of Great Britain from May 1940 to May 1941. These were desperate times for Great Britain, and Winston Churchill led the country through this and ultimately to victory in WWII. This book tells the story of the ups of downs of this period focusing on him, his family and the Nazis. This is highly recommended. It is a great, interesting history.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A Man in the Midst of War
Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2020
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This book traces a year, week by week, in the life of Winston Churchill. It begins when Churchill takes the mantle of Prime Minister and shoulders the burden of England’s war effort. As the year progresses, Larson traces the lives of Churchill’s family, closest advisors, and assistants while also keeping an eye on the actions of Goebbels, Goring, and Hitler. A primary focus is the bombing program against London. Larson keeps an eye on the logistics of Churchill’s life as well as those of the British war effort. He also invests a lot of attention toward the personal and social lives of these key players and makes extensive use of personal journals to keep the focus on the human impact of the war.

The book helped to explain the development of technologies, ideas, and various conflicts. One thread that I found particularly helpful to trace was America’s involvement in offering aid to Great Britain. While week by week hundreds of civilians are being bombarded and dying, American aloofness must have been agonizing to Churchill and the British populace. Also agonizing must have been the wait for the Lend Lease Act to be passed. This act, which I had only known in name prior to my reading, allowed America to leverage its resources with repayment assured only for damaged property. Larson used the analogy of lending a neighbor a hose when his house is on fire. You don’t sit down and negotiate the terms and cost of hose usage, you give him the hose. Then, if it is burned up in the firefight, you can talk remuneration after the fire has been doused. So too would the Lend Lease Act make some of America’s resources available to our British allies.

In reading the book, aside from specific actions on specific days, I didn’t learn much new information about Churchill. A great orator, indefatigable, an embracer of life, a drinker, a man with a temper, stalwart, a bit of an eccentric. Some interesting tidbits were sprinkled throughout such as his proclivity for working from the bathtub and the bed, but no deeper, heretofore unknown depths of character were uncovered.

Having read two other books by Larson, Devil in the White City and Thunderstruck, I was glad to find a better organized story in this book. Chronology was clear and themes developed slowly but organically. Overall, I am left with a clearer understanding of Churchill as a man and military leader and a greater appreciation for the human impact of war. In the midst of truly prodigious bombing, the citizens of Great Britain carried on with their lives, withstood, endured. It seemed that every person, in one way or another, paid a terrible price and yet the result was triumph in the face of evil.

GRADE: B+
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Paul Stusiak
5.0 out of 5 stars A different perspective
Reviewed in Canada on September 24, 2023
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This is a well told story with some new aspects that I haven't seen before.

This is a story that has been told many times, of the events to knock Great Britain out of WW II using air power - The Blitz as it has been described. I've read a good number of books on this topic as well as most of the major sources around Winston Churchill. I was pleased to see a new view of the historic events described from a different perspective with several story arcs tying the facts to what people were experiencing.

The story mostly focuses on those close to Churchill with some additional material from diarists and minor embellishment to the facts around some of the many lives lost - much more interesting to get some minor feel for a person than to learn of their death as another number.

I enjoyed finding that the title comes from paraphrasing a diarist's entry and it was fun to find it and remember reading their memoirs many years ago.

It builds on works previously published, using first source material and keeping the major events in place while adding a new look at some of the more mundane aspects of life to deliver a story that shows the ordinary and extraordinary coexisting against the backdrop of war. The sources, bibliography and index were excellent.

Despite the many story arcs presented, I had no problem keeping it straight over the intermittent reading of the story.

A very satisfying read.
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Jano
5.0 out of 5 stars A so delightful book to read
Reviewed in Mexico on April 9, 2023
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I enjoyed so much to read. It has been a pleasure time to invest in this reading, I personally believe W.Churchill was a true leader that saves England to be defeated.
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Compradora
5.0 out of 5 stars Maravilhoso
Reviewed in Brazil on April 12, 2022
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O tempo de guerra não é só de bombardeios, ataques, destruição. Junto a tudo isso, pessoas crescem, vão à escola, se divertem em festas. Civis são parte da história, sempre.
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Stephanie Ogryzlo
5.0 out of 5 stars masterpiece
Reviewed in France on August 4, 2024
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A well written, interesting, and complete recount of Churchill’s first year as PM during the war. Erik Larkson goes into lots of very interesting detail, with s splash of humour that the novel enjoyable to read!
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Ann McG
5.0 out of 5 stars factual yet entertaining
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 26, 2024
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This book gives a day by day account of the workings of Downing Street through the early years of WW2. It is fascinating in its detailed descriptions of momentous decisions and despite the horrors it recounts of the nightly bombing raids on London, Coentry, Liverpool, Bristol, Plymouth it also gives context to people going about their daily lives.
Mister Churchill has a central role in this account naturally, but other characters are very well depicted also, eg his youngest daughter Mary, one of his secretaries John Colville, Mr Beaverbrook, who filled many different roles.
A German perspective of the planned invasion of Britain is also well documented as is the essential part played by the US prior to December 1941.
Facts and figures of casualties, aerial bonbardments and bonb damage, advances in weaponry are all there and add to the sense of horror, determination to endure and will to overcome such adversity.
I truly enjoyed reading this book and recommend it to anyone interested in this period. It manages very well to bring it to life.
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