Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink

May, 1940. Britain is at war. The horrors of blitzkrieg have seen one Western European democracy after another fall in rapid succession to Nazi boot and shell. Invasion seems mere hours away.

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. Pen in hand and typist—secretary at the ready, how could he change the mood and shore up the will of a nervous people?

In this grippin...