Author Erik Larson talks Churchill in next Nick Linn series virtual lecture
Naples Daily News: Did you ever worry that Winston Churchill had been written about too much? You’ve mentioned how the smaller window of time — the year of the Blitz — offered a chance to explore aspects of Churchill that other writers hadn’t. Erik Larson: I worried constantly about that, thank you. But, I also knew that the question I wanted to answer was one no one had asked before, at least not in the same way: How exactly did Churchill and his family and close advisers ever manage to endure that first, year-long German air campaign? With that as my lens, suddenly Churchill’s his...