The bestselling author of The Devil in the White City delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz. Here, Larson shows, how Churchill taught the British people ''the art of being fearless.'' It is a story of political brinkmanship, but it's also an intimate domestic drama. Drawing on diaries, original archival documents, and once-secret intelligence reports-some released only recently-Larson provides a new lens on London's darkest year through the day-to-day experience of Churchill and his family.The Splendid and the Vile takes readers out of today's political dysfunction and back to a time of true leadership, when, in the face of unrelenting horror, Churchill's eloquence, courage, and perseverance bound a country, and a family, together.