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nprbooks: Author Erik Larson has transported readers to many...



nprbooks:

Author Erik Larson has transported readers to many times and places — from the 1893 World’s Fair in The Devil in the White City to the 1915 sinking of the Lusitania in Dead Wake.

His latest work takes us to May 1940 England. As Winston Churchill begins his first year as prime minister, Adolf Hitler overtakes France — with England as the next target.

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And our critic Michael Schaub says “there are countless books about World War II, but there’s only one Erik Larson.”

– Petra