Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back From The Brink

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Sinopse

“McCarten's pulse-pounding narrative transports the reader to those springtime weeks in 1940 when the fate of the world rested on the shoulders of Winston Churchill. A true story thrillingly told. Thoroughly researched and compulsively readable.”—Michael F. Bishop, Executive Director of the International Churchill Society

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

“He was speaking to the nation, the world, and indeed to history....”

May, 1940. Britain is at war. The horrors of blitzkrieg have seen one western European democracy after another fall in rapid succession to Nazi boot and shell. Invasion seems mere hours away.

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. Pen in hand and typist-secretary at the ready, how could he change the mood and shore up the will of a nervous people?

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. He reveals how he practiced and re-wrote his key speeches, from ‘Blood, toil, tears and sweat’ to ‘We shall fight on the beaches’; his consideration of a peace treaty with Nazi Germany, and his underappreciated role in the Dunkirk evacuation; and, above all, how 25 days helped make one man an icon.

Using new archive material, McCarten reveals the crucial behind-the-scenes moments that changed the course of history. It’s a scarier—and more human—story than has ever been told.

Capítulos

  • 001 Darkest Hour

    Duração: 14s
  • 002 Introduction

    Duração: 09min
  • 003 Chapter 01

    Duração: 34min
  • 004 Chapter 02

    Duração: 01h08min
  • 005 Chapter 03

    Duração: 28min
  • 006 Chapter 04

    Duração: 23min
  • 007 Chapter 05

    Duração: 17min
  • 008 Chapter 06

    Duração: 22min
  • 009 Chapter 07

    Duração: 40min
  • 010 Chapter 08

    Duração: 50min
  • 011 Chapter 09

    Duração: 49min
  • 012 Chapter 10

    Duração: 35min
  • 013 Epilogue

    Duração: 11min
  • 014 Credits

    Duração: 35s