Winter of the World
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
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The second period focuses on roughly three decades, from 1914 through 1945, the deadliest years in all of history. It is bookended by the two prolonged and costly world wars that dominated the first half of the twentieth century. It also includes the establishment and subsequent failure of the League of Nations, the Great Depression, the rise of na
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The Panama Canal was a significant achievement. But next to the challenges posed by the Second World War, digging it was a gentle warm-up exercise. War planners faced what one dazed general called “ordnance requirements of a size beyond the bounds of imagination.” For every soldier overseas, the United States would ship sixty-seven pounds of matéri
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