Reading this book, you feel the rush and desperation for human connection during war time. He invited the English to find their courage with one awe-inspiring speech after another. He was bold enough to counterattack Berlin and not wait for the war to ravage his home.
His diplomatic and eloquent letters to President Roosevelt encouraging American support were incredibly insightful and proved to be the right course of action to protect the world from Hitler. He spoke with total authority of “the essential human freedoms: speech, worship, and freedoms from want and fear.” The leadership and courage that Churchill displayed in this year of his life was inspiring. The tactics that Churchill employed truly changed the course of history. I lean toward fiction in my reading taste, but The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson’s captivating and inspiring story about the twists and turns of Winston Churchill’s first year as Prime Minister in 1940, grabbed me from page one. “Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few.” -Winston Churchill
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