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ID: 306853
Title: Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink
Author: Anthony McCarten
Narrator: John Lee
Format: Unabridged
Length: 06:35:00
Language: English
Release date: 11-07-17
Publisher: HarperAudio
Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, Military
Summary:
From the acclaimed novelist and screenwriter of The Theory of Everything comes a revisionist look at the period immediately following Winston Churchills ascendancy to Prime Ministernow a major motion picture starring Gary Oldman.
May 1940. Britain is at war, Winston Churchill has unexpectedly been promoted to Prime Minister, the horrors of Blitzkreig witness one western European Democracy fall after another in rapid succession. Facing this horror, with pen in hand and typist-secretary at the ready, Churchill wonders what words could capture the public mood when the invasion of Britain seems mere hours away.
It is this fascinating period that Anthony McCarten captures in this deeply researched and wonderfully written new book, The Darkest Hour. A day-by-day (and often hour-by-hour) narrative of this crucial moment in history provides a revisionist look at Churchilla man plagued by doubt through those turbulent weeksbut who emerged having made himself into the iconic, lionized figure we remember.
Contact: [email protected]
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By hotaudiobook.comListen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free
ID: 306853
Title: Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink
Author: Anthony McCarten
Narrator: John Lee
Format: Unabridged
Length: 06:35:00
Language: English
Release date: 11-07-17
Publisher: HarperAudio
Genres: History, Biography & Memoir, Law & Politics, Military
Summary:
From the acclaimed novelist and screenwriter of The Theory of Everything comes a revisionist look at the period immediately following Winston Churchills ascendancy to Prime Ministernow a major motion picture starring Gary Oldman.
May 1940. Britain is at war, Winston Churchill has unexpectedly been promoted to Prime Minister, the horrors of Blitzkreig witness one western European Democracy fall after another in rapid succession. Facing this horror, with pen in hand and typist-secretary at the ready, Churchill wonders what words could capture the public mood when the invasion of Britain seems mere hours away.
It is this fascinating period that Anthony McCarten captures in this deeply researched and wonderfully written new book, The Darkest Hour. A day-by-day (and often hour-by-hour) narrative of this crucial moment in history provides a revisionist look at Churchilla man plagued by doubt through those turbulent weeksbut who emerged having made himself into the iconic, lionized figure we remember.
Contact: [email protected]