Churchill Beneath the Clouds of War

In the autumn of 1940, London burned. German bombers pounded the city night after night during the Blitz, and thick clouds of smoke hung over the capital like a funeral shroud. Citizens huddled in Underground stations, wondering if anything solid remained above them. Winston Churchill walked the rubble-strewn streets after each raid, surveying the destruction, and reportedly told his War Cabinet, "We shall not fail or falter.…