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A Note to Readers to Part One: The Rising Threat

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Larson, Author Erik. The Splendid and the Vile. Random House, 2020. Hardcover.

• In A Note to Readers, Erik Larson realized when he moved to Manhattan what September 11, 2001 would have been like for those living in New York City, compared to Americans who watched the events from a distance.

• This caused him to wonder how the British dealt with the German aerial assault on London in 1940-41.

• He also wondered how Prime Minister Winston Churchill would have felt about those events.

• So he decided to write about Churchill’s first year as prime minister from May 10, 1940, to May 10, 1941.

• In Bleak Expectations, everyone knew that Britain would be attacked by the German eventually.

• Civil defense experts predicted that London would be all but destroyed and that 200,000 civilians would...

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