![]() ![]() ![]() He could be angry one moment and jolly the next. At times, he would lash out at his staff. Behind Churchill's inspiring speeches was an eccentric character. "The Splendid And The Vile" reconstructs one year of Winston Churchill's outsized life, his most famous year beginning in May 1940 when Churchill became prime minister just as a German attack loomed. INSKEEP: Larson's past books have often focused on less famous characters right at the edge of history, like an architect and a mass killer in Chicago or an ambassador to Nazi Germany. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets. WINSTON CHURCHILL: We shall fight on the beaches. Erik Larson wrote a book about Winston Churchill, the British prime minister whose inspiring speeches led the U.K. One of today's acclaimed popular historians has taken on one of history's most acclaimed figures. ![]()
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