"This is the room from which I will direct the war," Winston Churchill declared, shortly after becoming Prime Minister of the U.K. in 1940. It was from these cramped confines that Churchill turned a seemingly inevitable defeat at the hands of the Nazis into a famous victory.
For the first time, the history of the bunker – and daily life inside it – is revealed. Built in 1938 as a temporary refuge, this bunker became a second home to Churchill.
Drawing on a remarkable range of original material, including new first-hand accounts of the people who lived there, Richard Holmes reveals how and why the bunker and its war machine developed, how the inhabitants' lives were transformed, and how their work led to victory.