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Churchill: Walking with Destiny

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內容簡介 邱吉爾出身於英國貴族，其勇敢、充滿野心的形象在全世界心中都刻下了深深的痕跡，被認為是20世紀最重要的政治領袖之一，在第二次世界大戰期間，帶領英國人民度過的戰亂，當時激勵人心的演講，到現在都還是相當具有代表性。邱吉爾年輕就加入軍隊，參加了許多戰事，二十世紀初回到英國加入政壇，開啟了長達一甲子的政治生涯，期間曾兩次出任英國首相，尤其帶領英國在第二次大戰中獲勝的成績令人津津樂道。邱吉爾的一生精采，都在這本書中呈現給讀者，本書特別收錄了其他作品缺少的史料，將邱吉爾的人生歷程細細說給讀者聽，不管當代閱讀或者傳到下一代，都將是一本關於邱吉爾的重要著作。作者Andrew Robert是知名的傳記寫手和歷史學家，也是第一位獲得英國女皇恩准，可以研究英王喬治六世私人日記的傳記寫手。'Undoubtedly the best single-volume life of Churchill ever written' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday TimesA magnificently fresh and unexpected biography of Churchill, by one of Britain's most acclaimed historiansWinston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world.There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over forty new sources, including the private diaries of King George VI, used in no previous Churchill biography to depict him more intimately and persuasively than any of its predecessors. The book in no way conceals Churchill's faults and it allows the reader to appreciate his virtues and character in full: his titanic capacity for work (and drink), his ability see the big picture, his willingness to take risks and insistence on being where the action was, his good humour even in the most desperate circumstances, the breadth and strength of his friendships and his extraordinary propensity to burst into tears at unexpected moments. Above all, it shows us the wellsprings of his personality - his lifelong desire to please his father (even long after his father's death) but aristocratic disdain for the opinions of almost everyone else, his love of the British Empire, his sense of history and its connection to the present.During the Second World War, Churchill summoned a particular scientist to see him several times for technical advice. 'It was the same whenever we met', wrote the young man, 'I had a feeling of being recharged by a source of living power.' Harry Hopkins, President Roosevelt's emissary, wrote 'Wherever he was, there was a battlefront.' Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Churchill's essential partner in strategy and most severe critic in private, wrote in his diary, 'I thank God I was given such an opportunity of working alongside such a man, and of having my eyes opened to the fact that occasionally supermen exist on this earth.'

作者介紹

作者介紹 Andrew Roberts Andrew Roberts is a biographer and historian of international renown whose books include Salisbury: Victorian Titan (winner of the Wolfson Prize for History), Masters and Commanders (winner of the Emery Reves Award) and The Storm of War (winner of the British Army Book Prize). His most recent book was Napoleon the Great (2014), which won the Grand Prix of the Fondation Napoléon and the Los Angeles Times Biography Prize. Roberts is a Fellow of the Royal Societies of Literature and the Royal Historical Society, and a Trustee of the International Churchill Society. He is currently Visiting Professor at the Dept of War Studies at King's College, London, and the Roger and Martha Mertz Visiting Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His website is www.andrew-roberts.net

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