New York: Crown Publishers, (2020) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Based on diaries, original archival documents, and once-secret intelligence reports, which provides a new perspective on Londons darkest year through the day-to-day experience of Churchill and his family. On his first day as prime minister, "Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy allyand willing to fight to the end." SIGNED on the title page. Frontispiece photograph, map. Sources, bibliography, index. xii, 585 pp. ISBN: 978-0385348713.