Popular historian David McCullough has penned a delightful new, little holiday season book about Winston Churchill's surprise Christmas 1941 visit to Washington, D.C. In the Dark Streets Shineth: A 1941 Christmas Eve Story focuses particularly on the British premier's first hearing of the hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem," sung at a Christmas service to which FDR took him. The carol partly echoed some words in Churchill's first radio broadcast to the American people, referring to the "English-speaking world" at Christmas as a "brightly-lighted island of happiness and peace."
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