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“This is a wonderful work of history, told in Olson’s trademark style.”
–Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling author

From the New York Times bestselling author of Citizens of London and Those Angry Days, a groundbreaking account of how Britain abandoned its centuries-old aloofness from Europe to welcome to its shores the exiled leaders and people of the European countries vanquished by Hitler… |Read more

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“Lynne Olson is a master storyteller.”
—Evan Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of Being Nixon

“A rip-roaring saga of hair-breadth escape, espionage, and resistance.”
—Erik Larson, New York Times best-selling author of Dead Wake

Lynne Olson is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books of history, most of which deal in some way with World War II and Britain’s crucial role in that conflict. Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has called Olson “our era’s foremost chronicler of World War II politics and diplomacy.”

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Madame Fourcade’s Secret War -     Over the last twenty years, I’ve written eight books of history, most of which deal in some way with World War II and Britain’s role in that war. The books have another common thread: they all focus in some way on unsung heroes  — people of courage and conscience who helped change their […]
#RESIST — AND V FOR VICTORY - From the first day of Donald Trump’s presidency, millions of Americans have taken to the streets to challenge what they see as his unprecedented efforts to destroy this country’s democratic institutions and to turn back the clock on social and economic justice. Facebook and other forms of social media have served as the primary engines […]

Lynne Olson’s Books

Lynne Olson is the New York Times bestselling author of Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941, and Citizens of London: The Americans Who Stood with Britain in Its Darkest Hour. Among her five other books is Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England. | View All

Those Angry Days BookCitizens of London BookTroublesome Young Men Book