The splendid and the vile a saga of Churchill, family, and defiance during the blitz
(2020)
Nonfiction
Audiobook CD
Call Numbers:
CD/940.542121/LARSON,E
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
[New York] : Penguin Random House, [2020]
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
14 audio discs (17 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in
ISBN/ISSN
9780593167168 60dhrk, 0593167163 40dhrk, 9780593167168
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Compact discs
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
Unabridged
Read by John Lee, with a note read by the author