Churchill's Bunker - Softcover

“[This] book serves both as a guide to the fascinating Cabinet War Rooms and also as a fitting memorial to the men and women who worked so hard down there over six grueling years of war.”—Andrew Roberts, The Observer (London)

“Richard Holmes’s Churchill’s Bunker is a bright and fascinating new book devoted to where and how Churchill often lived and ruled during the first years of the war.  Bright, because it illuminates, literally, the underground warren of sunless rooms where Churchill’s staff functioned below blackened London streets. Fascinating, because both the origins and the conditions of this subterranean headquarters, as well as Churchill’s presence in and absence from it, were not at all simple.”—John Lukacs, author of Five Days in London: May 1940

“A fascinating and invaluable insight into the secret catacombs under Whitehall where Winston Churchill planned British war strategy, spoke to President Roosevelt through scrambler telephone, and broadcast his inspirational messages of defiance to Nazism.”―Andrew Roberts, author of Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945

“With this vivid and compelling combination of grand strategy and human detail Richard Holmes brings to life a very British and surprisingly effective war-time government, and the improvised bunker in which it operated.”―Lawrence Freedman, author of A Choice of Enemies: America Confronts the Middle East