Eric Larson - Light and árnyék - Churchill and a Blitzkrieg

On the day Winston Churchill became Prime Minister, Hitler overran Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was only two weeks away. Over the next twelve months, Hitler killed 45,000 Britons with relentless bombing. Churchill was tasked with holding the country together and convincing President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a valuable ally and was ready to fight to the end. Erik Larson presents in cinematic detail how Churchill taught the British "the art of fearlessness". This is a chronicle of catastrophic politics, but also of intimate family dramas. Larson relies on diaries, original archival documents, as well as once secret - and in more than one case only recently became researchable - draws on intelligence reports to portray London's darkest year from a new perspective, through the everyday experiences of Churchill and his immediate environment.
Light and Shadow takes readers out of today's tumultuous political scene and transports them back to an era when Churchill's eloquence, courage and steadfastness served as the glue of a country and a family.