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The Splendid and the Vile by Erik Larson

Books of Titans Podcast

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Book Review - I'm Giving Away Spoilers in This Book

The title of the book comes from a statement made by John Colville who is assistant private secretary to Winston Churchill during this time. "Yes, there's these bombings, but you look past the bombs and the fires going and there's nature or there's just this beautiful sky," he said. The contrast with war with nature, but then also just the contrast of the beauty of the destruction too came up quite a few times in the book.

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