Tag: world-war-2
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The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (2020) by Erik Larson
Erik Larson has a rare talent for making popular history read like gripping historical fiction. His trademark approach – finding lesser-known figures like serial killer Dr. H.H. Holmes or American diplomat Martha Dodd and placing them amid moments of great historical consequence – has yielded some of the most compelling nonfiction narratives of the past…