In this gripping day-by-day, often hour-by-hour account of how an often uncertain Churchill turned Britain around, the celebrated Bafta-winning writer Anthony McCarten exposes sides of the great man never seen before. Pen in hand and typist-secretary at the ready, how could he change the mood and shore up the will of a nervous people? 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. “He was speaking to the nation, the world, and indeed to history.” The horrors of blitzkrieg have seen one 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. “He was speaking to the nation, the world, and indeed to history.” May, 1940. 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.