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hopefully each month to enjoy. This time, I would like to recommend two books

as they really helped me to get a feel for the period we're covering now.

The first one is Winston S. Churchill, the history of the Second World War,

volume two, their finest hour. First off, the reader does a very good impression of Churchill,

and there are moments when you forget it's not the author reading to you or talking to you.

But what I really got out of this besides hearing the British version of the battle of Britain

was Churchill's interactions with others in the government, his meetings,

how he spent his days and his weekends, and who was making what decisions,

and his take on the other major British players. This book really filled in the gaps for me,

and of course, the writing is superb. Churchill knows how to tell a story.

The second audiobook is Citizens of London, the Americans who stood with Britain

in its darkest finest hour by Lynn Olson. This is a great,

behind-the-scenes story of three men, Edward Armero, the CBS head in Europe,

who told Britain's story as they attempted to keep the German invasion at bay,

Avarole Harriman, a railroad tycoon, who would organize the Len Lee's program for FDR in Britain

and then in the USSR, and they would go on to use his own money to explain to the citizens of the U.S.

how the Len Lee's program was actually good for America. And finally, the U.S. Ambassador

after Joseph Kennedy left in late 1940, John Gilbert Winant. Winant had a lot of work ahead of him

after the pro-appeasement Kennedy left the position. When Wyatt arrived in London,

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