![]() The result is the kind of page-turner you always want in a history book but rarely get. ![]() “I set out to hunt for the stories that often get left out of the massive biographies of Churchill, either because there’s no time to tell them or because they seem too frivolous,” Larson explains in the acknowledgments. This German Blitzkrieg killed 44,652 Brits-almost 6,000 of them children-and seriously injured another 28,556.īut numbers don’t tell the story, and that’s why Larson works with small, intimate details. The Splendid and the Vile is a brilliant account of another era of widespread anxiety: the years 19, when English citizens spent almost every night in makeshift shelters as massive bombs rained down on them. But it is surprisingly relevant for these times. ![]() ![]() Erik Larson’s The Splendid and the Vile has nothing to do with viruses or pandemics. ![]()
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