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Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz

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. In THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE, Erik Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how Churchill taught the British people “the art of being fearless."

Week of February 14, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of February 14th include THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE by Erik Larson, an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz --- an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis; NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS, an urgent, genre-defying book from Patricia Lockwood that asks a burning question: Is there life after the internet?; Karen White's THE LAST NIGHT IN LONDON, a captivating story of friendship, love and betrayal that moves between war-torn London during the Blitz and the present day; ASTRID SEES ALL, Natalie Standiford's brilliantly winning novel about a smart, vulnerable young woman taking a deep dive into her dark side in the glittering, decadent downtown club scene of 1980s New York; and THE GOOD AMERICAN by Robert D. Kaplan, a sweeping yet intimate story of the most influential humanitarian you’ve never heard of --- Bob Gersony, who spent four decades in crisis zones around the world.