5/20/2023 0 Comments The dead wake by erik larson![]() It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally-and willing to fight to the end. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. ![]() On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. ![]() NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review “A bravura performance by one of America’s greatest storytellers.” -NPR
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