Quotation

The Splendid and the Vile

a Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
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“The night… was cloudless and starry, with the moon rising over Westminster. Nothing could have been more beautiful and the searchlights interlaced at certain points on the horizon, the star-like flashes in the sky where shells were bursting, the light of distant fires, all added to the scene. It was magnificent and terrible: the spasmodic drone of enemy aircraft overhead; the thunder of gunfire, sometimes close sometimes in the distance; the illumination, like that of electric trains in the firmament. Never was there such a contrast of natural splendor and human vileness.” - p. 238