Fear and hope. How Churchill saved Britain from the disaster. Larson E.

In 1940, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium, Poland and Czechoslovakia fell, and only two weeks remained before the evacuation of troops from the coast of France. The inhabitants of London and the surroundings from day to day expected the invasion of German troops from the sea and from the air, and ahead was the battle for Britain - an exhausting confrontation with the Luftwaffe forces. At this difficult time for the country, Winston Churchill took the post of Prime Minister of Great Britain to demonstrate to the whole world what true political leadership is. In his book, Eric Larson describes Churchill's everyday life, his family and ordinary citizens in the most gloomy year in the history of the 20th century London, based on diaries, archival documents and declassified reconnaissance reports, some of which became accessible to historians quite recently. “Fear and Hope” is a fascinating story about how the eloquence and perseverance of a great statesman united the nation before the onslaught of inexorable horror.