It’s a scarier-and more human-story than has ever been told.
#The darkest hour archive#
Using never-before-accessed archive material, McCarten reveals the crucial behind-the-scenes moments that changed the course of history. Darkest Hour Fact Check: Did Winston Churchill Really Sneak Off to the London Underground A key scene in the drama featuring Gary Oldman as Churchill might. 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. Firestar is the cat depicted on the original and reprinted cover. 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. The Darkest Hour is the sixth book in The Prophecies Begin arc, formerly known as the Original arc. Pen in hand and typist-secretary at the ready, how could he change the mood and shore up the will of a nervous people? 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. The horrors of blitzkrieg have seen one western European democracy after another fall in rapid succession to Nazi boot and shell.
“He was speaking to the nation, the world, and indeed to history.” Bishop, Executive Director of the International Churchill Societyįrom 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-now a major motion picture starring Gary Oldman. As the threat of Nazi invasion looms, newly appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill rallies a nation to fight for its very survival. Thoroughly researched and compulsively readable.” -Michael F. Early in the 3D sci-fi/horror film The Darkest Hour, best friends Sean (Emile Hirsch) and Ben (Max Minghella), newly arrived in Russia, discuss the. “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.
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