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Jan 22, 2018 · Yes. In the Darkest Hour movie, Winston Churchill (Gary Oldman) scolds his personal secretary Elizabeth Layton (Lily James) for hearing him wrong and dictating the incorrect word. It's her first day working for him and his harshness scares her off.
Jan 1, 2014 · 4.15. 2,749 ratings274 reviews. From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes an epic tale of love, passion and heartbreak. Love is as uncertain and as untameable as war…. In the summer of 1940, most eyes are focused on the skies above the South of England. The battle for Britain has just begun.
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- Barbara Erskine
Jul 26, 2016 · I loved The Darkest Hour! It was an enthralling tale that was so carefully crafted and detailed. Caroline Richmond does a fantastic job of showing what the war was really like for Persians, although most of it is just realistic fiction.
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- Caroline Tung Richmond
by Barbara Erskine (Author) 4.4 4,098 ratings. See all formats and editions. From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes an epic tale of love, passion and heartbreak. In the summer of 1940, eyes are focussed on the skies above the South of England: the Battle for Britain has just begun.
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- Barbara Erskine
- The Decision
- Churchill’s Ride on The London Subway
- His Speeches
- Churchill at Home
- Churchill’s Opponents
- Churchill and The King
- What The Movie Leaves Out
In late May 1940, the situation was just as desperate as it is in the film. In the dark, subterranean nerve center where the British War Cabinet assembled, under White Hall in Westminster, bad news constantly flowed in. The Belgians, Danes, and Dutch had been defeated by the Germans. British defenders were nearly beaten in Norway, and France was ra...
There’s a perfectly fantastical scene in the film in which a doubtful Winston Churchill takes a ride on the Underground in order to commune with “the people.” The good people of London tell him to fight on, that they would never surrender. In the film, this St. Crispin’s Day speech from District line commuters to the Prime Minister steels him for t...
The same goes for Members of Parliament. In his semi-fantastical memoir of the war years, Churchill offered the version of his late May speech to the 25-member outer cabinet pretty much as depicted in the film. According to the diaries of politician Hugh Dalton, he offered the terrific line, repeated in the film, “if this long island story of ours ...
Churchill was a professional politician, but he was also a professional writer. He first made his name with his book on his experiences as an army officer in Sudan in the 1890s. And it was through his work as a war correspondent that he ended up a prisoner of the Boers as a young man, something mentioned in the film. The film has many scenes of him...
There’s no conclusive evidence to suggest that Lord Halifax and Neville Chamberlain were making concrete maneuvers to hold an imminent vote of no confidence in Churchill and end his government. The threat was ever-present, certainly, until the British—with utterly requisite service of the Indian Army—started winning some battles in Africa and the M...
Sources such as King George VI’s diary suggest his relationship with Churchill did seem to get off to the awkward start depicted on film. The King, who truly was a strong Chamberlain supporter, saw the same baggage everyone else did in Churchill. George (or “Bertie”) had also watched Churchill completely misplay the politics around his brother King...
So, the film embodies a good historical lesson, while veering from the historical sources. Besides NFL-style shouting and an imaginary tube ride, where else does it veer? It’s worth remembering that Churchill opposed Nazism as thuggery, as naked expansionism, even a “soul-destroying tyranny,” as he said in his first radio broadcast as Prime Ministe...
Mar 28, 2018 · A biographer of Winston Churchill looks at what Darkest Hour gets right and wrong. Winston Churchill was a bit different from how Gary Oldman portrayed him, says Churchill biographer Ashley...
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