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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent blend of historial facts with events of people in the early days of WWII (1940) and what the British Government and its people were dealing with as the German Forces advanced across Europe.<br/><br/>It shows the strengths and courage of those charged with ensuring England would fight on ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5544076">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I know the history, know the outcome, but that didn't stop this book from keeping me interested and even in suspense. The historical detail is great.  I feel like I really know Churchill now (and Hitler too--I've read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and thought I knew Hitler fairly well, but th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80249201">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent story, better than Winston's War. Fewer and better side stories. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Great way to tell the story of the struggles that Churchill was up against during his first days in office. Not only against the Nazi war machine, but about the members of his own governemnt that had serious doubts about whether he was the right person for the job.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this historical fiction.  I found that most was well researchd and that it gave a good feeling of what Churchill and better yet the UK was facing in those early years of uncertainty of WWII.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Poor editing job. Somewhat hokey, but that's to be expected of a historical novel. I keep reading it because I'm interested in Churchill, not because it's well-written.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A Conversation With Michael Dobbs click link below<br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://xrl.us/bgpfr">http://xrl.us/bgpfr</a><br/>]]></body>
    
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