出版社: Crown Publishing Group
副标题: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz
出版年: 2020-2-25
页数: 585
定价: USD 39.60
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385348713
内容简介 · · · · · ·
On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons (30,000 of them Londoners) and destroying two million homes. It was up to Churchill to hold th...
On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons (30,000 of them Londoners) and destroying two million homes. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally--that she was willing to fight to the end.
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Erik Larson’s latest work of narrative nonfiction is DEAD WAKE: THE LAST CROSSING OF THE LUSITANIA, which became an immediate New York Times bestseller. His saga of the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and won an Edgar Award for fact-crime writing, and lingered on various NYT best-seller lists for the better ...
Erik Larson’s latest work of narrative nonfiction is DEAD WAKE: THE LAST CROSSING OF THE LUSITANIA, which became an immediate New York Times bestseller. His saga of the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and won an Edgar Award for fact-crime writing, and lingered on various NYT best-seller lists for the better part of a decade. Hulu plans to adapt the book for a limited TV series, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese as executive producers. Erik’s IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS, about America’s first ambassador to Nazi Germany and his daughter, has been optioned by Tom Hanks for development as a feature film.
His next book, THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE: A SAGA OF CHURCHILL, FAMILY, AND DEFIANCE DURING THE BLITZ, due out in early spring 2020, is a story of geopolitical brinksmanship during Churchill’s first year as prime minister, but also an intimate domestic drama, set against the backdrop of Churchill’s prime-ministerial country house, Chequers, and his “full-moon home,” Ditchley, where Churchill, his family, and his “Secret Circle” convene when the moon is in its brightest phases and the bombing threat is highest.
Erik is a former features writer for The Wall Street Journal and Time. His magazine stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's and other publications.
He has taught non-fiction writing at San Francisco State, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, the University of Oregon, and the Chuckanut Writers Conference, and has spoken to audiences from coast to coast. A former resident of Seattle, he now lives in Manhattan with his wife, a neonatologist and author of the nonfiction memoir, ALMOST HOME, which, as Erik puts it, "could make a stone cry." They have three daughters in far-flung locations and professions.
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1940年5月10日,纳粹德国开始进攻西欧低地国家(比利时,荷兰)。英国政府中,反对首相钱伯纶绥靖政策的议员们终于迫使他辞职。被认为"有一口好口才,但判断力不太行"的"疯子大象"丘吉尔当选首相。接受了英王的组阁委托后,走出王宫,天色暗下来,丘吉尔对向他祝贺的卫士长... (展开)至暗时刻,用信念与行动创造奇迹。
特定历史时间下的里短家长
至此一年,珍惜活着的幸福!
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2 有用 锐 2020-11-26 15:10:39
跟Larson其他几本书一个路子,研究大量的史料然后把一段有趣的历史讲成故事。但或许因为Churchill的故事太过人尽皆知,不如其他几本引人入胜
0 有用 大闸蟹还很远 2020-07-08 01:35:59
第一次听有声书,觉得这本太合适了——既是很平实的历史又有戏剧性,而且朗读得非常好,把丘吉尔轻微的lisping都学出来了。最后附上1941年美国参战后丘吉尔在白宫的演讲录音,也是平时看书不会有的彩蛋。至于内容,历史部分非常浅显(也因此很适合听),有趣的是丘吉尔和他身边的人的性格和日常,以及Blitz的阴影下不懈的生活,这就是标题中的 the splendid
0 有用 xixi 2022-12-25 16:17:06 广东
#有声书
0 有用 smgmp 2023-08-31 09:55:49 北京
丘吉尔二战期间作首相第一年the Blitz期间的故事/好闷啊,终于在地铁上读完了
1 有用 kidpt 2021-05-22 06:09:33
聚焦1940年5月到1941年5月丘吉尔临危受命 喜欢生动有电影感的文风 既有战火连绵和硝烟飞扬 也有普通民众非常时期的艰辛与苦中作乐 想想防毒面罩仅是稀松平常的画面 扛过疫情依旧难以想象如何咬紧牙关挺过战乱 丘吉尔着实是位伟大的领导者 能激发国民恒久的勇气和希望是比调度军马更为难得的品质 给团队写的公文要简短memo真是宝藏! 愈发喜欢Clementine 训斥戴高乐毫不嘴软真是太霸气了 极其向... 聚焦1940年5月到1941年5月丘吉尔临危受命 喜欢生动有电影感的文风 既有战火连绵和硝烟飞扬 也有普通民众非常时期的艰辛与苦中作乐 想想防毒面罩仅是稀松平常的画面 扛过疫情依旧难以想象如何咬紧牙关挺过战乱 丘吉尔着实是位伟大的领导者 能激发国民恒久的勇气和希望是比调度军马更为难得的品质 给团队写的公文要简短memo真是宝藏! 愈发喜欢Clementine 训斥戴高乐毫不嘴软真是太霸气了 极其向往她和丘吉尔既能共甘苦谋大计又能为彼此留有空间的婚姻关系 对Mary很有好感 她的日记读来既有年轻女孩子的浪漫敏感又不乏对家国大事的关注和对父亲的体恤 读至尾声 虽然战局尚余几年 但光明的轮廓已经让心绪变得敞亮 竟有一丝熬过来这一年多而产生的共鸣感 Epilogue读完预料之外满满暖意 爱不释手! (展开)
0 有用 smgmp 2023-08-31 09:55:49 北京
丘吉尔二战期间作首相第一年the Blitz期间的故事/好闷啊,终于在地铁上读完了
0 有用 xixi 2022-12-25 16:17:06 广东
#有声书
0 有用 史丹利高先生 2022-11-26 17:46:15 北京
可以感受到英国二战中恐怖和绝望,身临其境。
0 有用 皮蛋瘦肉jo 2021-11-22 12:18:12
类似纪录片的书,通过信件等较可靠的证据,回忆了丘吉尔上任首相一年来生活的点滴。反复出现的主题包括,说服罗斯福参战,对德国的进攻顽固抵抗,女儿Mary天真少女,儿子赌博不靠谱,美丽儿媳Pamela从失落到放弃婚姻开始外遇,好朋友当军事部长反复提辞职,忠心耿耿的保镖,有着参军热血的秘书。是位坚毅伟大有个性的首相。一星扣给有声书,口音太重,每次读Mary的信声音都装得很嗲。
0 有用 Blair Huang 黄 2021-09-05 01:31:52
Simply marvellous. 打算买一本hard copy收藏,再趁热打铁多念点Churchill