Darkest Hour
Darkest Hour 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…
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Darkest Hour
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. Britain is at war. "He was speaking to the nation, the world, and indeed to history..."May, 1940.
Invasion seems mere hours away.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. Pen in hand and typist-secretary at the ready, how could he change the mood and shore up the will of a nervous people?In this gripping day-by-day, often hour-by-hour