Hundreds and hundreds of books have been written about Winston Churchill and World War II. Yet we have never before had a complete study of the underground set of rooms in downtown London beneath the Office of Works building near Parliament where, ten feet below the streets of London, Churchill and his closest military and civilian advisers labored during the days and months of intense bombing that London suffered off and on during the war. These Cabinet War Rooms contained the famous Map Room, which daily charted the course of the war as well as eating and sleeping facilities for dozens of full-time staffers who spent weeks without seeing the sun. Holmes, who just won the National Book Critics Circle Award for The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science, here gives us a truly remarkable story told with verve and clarity.
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