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title: "The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz Kindle Edition"
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# The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz Kindle Edition

**Brand:** erik larson
**Price:** 3526 kr
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- **What is this?** The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz Kindle Edition by erik larson
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Another well researched and written Larson biography!!
*by F***O on August 11, 2025*

Clever that Larson covered a small slice of WW2 for a whole biography.It's full of facts and insights but reads not as a stuffy tome but as a novel. Easy read

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One Year in a Life
*by A***D on June 5, 2025*

Winston Churchill was, arguably, one of the more extraordinary figures of modern British history. His life covered parts of two centuries wherein he was, variously, a journalist, politician, soldier, author and prime minister.Erik Larson’s “The Splendid and the Vile” focusses on a brief but compelling period of Churchill’s long life; namely, the first year of his prime ministership. By and large, this was a period of many failures as Britain (and its empire) stood alone against the Nazi threat. It was also the period when Churchill was at his most pugnacious. He was the man for the occasion. Perhaps no other Briton could have stood in his place.As a work of history, the book reads almost as a thriller. It certainly captured this reader’s attention…and held it!The book is an intimate portrayal of Churchill’s life. We are introduced to his family, his daily troubles, his failures and his (comparatively few) triumphs. If I was to find one criticism of the book it’s that the politics of the time was largely ignored. Clement Atlee receives only one mention and that on the book’s penultimate page. But this aside, the book is a riveting read and a significant addition to the seemingly endless library of Churchill books.Recommended.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Well written but important details left out
*by C***C on December 27, 2020*

I bought this book because I'd loved Larson's book The Devil in the White City. I read a lot of literature about WWII and am involved with an organization involved with commemoration of certain resistance groups and individuals of that era. While Larson tries to make the players more alive by including personal details (such as too much about the love life of Churchill's secretary John Coleville), he left out some key details which would have added depth to the stories told. For example, a good portion of the book concerns the Royal Air Force and the pilots' achievements, which were largely responsible for Britain's success against the Nazis. Yet, Larson didn't mention the fact that Polish pilots were an extremely important part of the RAF, and statistically more successful pilots than the British pilots, due to their daring and experience. Refer to the book A Question of Honor (authors Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud, available on Amazon). This quote is very relevant: "We shall conquer together or we shall die together" Churchill vowed to the Polish Prime Minister, General Wladyslaw Sikorski, after the fall of France. Meeting Polish troops as they arrived in England in June 1940, British Anthony Eden declared: "We shall not abandon your sacred cause and shall continue this war until your beloved country be returned to her faithful sons." (page 6) Additionally, Larson mentions the British successes at Bletchley Park and the Enigma machine, but fails to mention that the Poles gave them a machine before the war and turned over the solutions to the Nazi codes, enabling that intelligence success. This is an interesting read, particularly how Larson contrasts Nazi and British diaries for the same time frame, but could have probably been even more complete a picture with a few more details.

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