Bishop, Executive Director of the International Churchill Society. Thoroughly researched and compulsively readable.” -Michael F. “McCarten's pulse-pounding narrative transports the reader to those springtime weeks in 1940 when the fate of the world rested on the shoulders of Winston Churchill. A true story thrillingly told. It’s a scarier-and more human-story than has ever been told.
THE DARKEST HOUR ARCHIVE
Using new archive material, McCarten reveals the crucial behind-the-scenes moments that changed the course of history. He reveals how he practiced and re-wrote his key speeches, from ‘Blood, toil, tears and sweat’ to ‘We shall fight on the beaches’ his consideration of a peace treaty with Nazi Germany, and his underappreciated role in the Dunkirk evacuation and, above all, how 25 days helped make one man an icon. In this gripping day-by-day, often hour-by-hour account of how an often uncertain Churchill turned Britain around, the celebrated Bafta-winning writer Anthony McCarten exposes sides of the great man never seen before. Pen in hand and typist-secretary at the ready, how could he change the mood and shore up the will of a nervous people? Just days after becoming Prime Minister, Winston Churchill must deal with this horror-as well as a skeptical King, a party plotting against him, and an unprepared public. The horrors of blitzkrieg have seen one western European democracy after another fall in rapid succession to Nazi boot and shell. “He was speaking to the nation, the world, and indeed to history.” The horrors of blitzkrieg have seen one From the acclaimed novelist and screenwriter of The Theory of Everything comes a revelatory look at the period immediately following Winston Churchill’s ascendancy to Prime Minister-soon to be a major motion picture starring Gary Oldman. “He was speaking to the nation, the world, and indeed to history.” May, 1940. From the acclaimed novelist and screenwriter of The Theory of Everything comes a revelatory look at the period immediately following Winston Churchill’s ascendancy to Prime Minister-soon to be a major motion picture starring Gary Oldman.
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