Recommended for anyone who’s keeping a stiff upper lip right now. His latest book, The Splendid and the Vile, follows England’s storied prime minister Winston Churchill during his first year in office and his efforts to hold fast and fight at the height of Hitler’s oppressive bombing campaign, best known as the Blitz, during the early days of World War II. Trivia: Who said “We are getting short of a certain type of paper…!!!” ? Was it: Especially delightful was an interlude toward the middle of the book regarding the king of England desperately writing Allies to find out if anyone had any toilet paper they could send to the British embassy.

The 1 New York Times bestselling author of Dead Wake. Read 10,686 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Hard to imagine, huh? This book was a great comfort to me this week because 1) I love Erik Larson, and 2) it’s reassuring to remember that we’ve been through circumstances like this before, and we’ve always come out thriving on the other side. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson The Splendid and the Vile book. The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz Erik Larson 4. Erik Larson is the author of six New York Times bestsellers, most recently The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz, which examines how Winston Churchill and his Secret Circle went about surviving the German air campaign of 1940-41. Completely unplanned, my first quarantine read was Erik Larson’s The Splendid and the Vile, a book about the time all of London was forced to stay indoors indefinitely by forces far beyond their control.

Loooong time no see, Readers! Like everyone and their mother, I am hunkered down for the pandemic, so of course I’m catching up on my reading! It’s been a hell of a year and it’s only Wednesday, Lemon.

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