The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Alone, 1932-1940

基本信息

Format Paperback | 800 pages

Dimensions 140 x 203 x 43.69mm | 794g

Publication date 01 Nov 1989

Publisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc

Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group

Language English

Edition Statement Reissue

ISBN10 0385313314

ISBN13 9780385313315

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

《最后的雄狮：丘吉尔传2（1932-1940）》记述了丘吉尔从58岁到临危受命出任二战时英国首相，中间过去的等待的8年。

威廉·曼彻斯特广受好评的三部曲的中卷。在这本书中，温斯顿·丘吉尔展开了他的决定性战役：不是反对希特勒的战争机器，而是反对他不情愿的同胞。曼彻斯特认为，丘吉尔最辉煌的时刻是反对绥靖政策的艰苦战斗，而不仅仅是他在战斗中的领导能力。当丘吉尔警告反对日益增长的纳粹威胁时，国会受到了嘲笑和蔑视，丘吉尔独自站在那里——只有在汹涌的风暴中被历史证明是希望的灯塔。

“The best Churchill biography [for] this generation . . . Even readers who know the basic story will find much that is new.”—Newsweek

In this powerful biography, the middle volume of William Manchester’s critically acclaimed trilogy, Winston Churchill wages his defining campaign: not against Hitler’s war machine but against his own reluctant countrymen. Manchester contends that even more than his leadership in combat, Churchill’s finest hour was the uphill battle against appeasement. As Parliament received with jeers and scorn his warnings against the growing Nazi threat, Churchill stood alone—only to be vindicated by history as a beacon of hope amid the gathering storm.

Praise for The Last Lion: Alone

“Manchester has such control over a huge and moving narrative, such illumination of character . . . that he can claim the considerable achievement of having assembled enough powerful evidence to support Isaiah Berlin’s judgment of Churchill as ‘the largest human being of our time.’”—The New Yorker

“Memorable.”—San Francisco Chronicle

“Stirring . . . As Manchester points out several times, it’s as if the age, having produced a Hitler, then summoned Churchill as the only figure equal to the task of vanquishing him. The years Alone are the pivotal years of Churchill’s career.”—The Boston Sunday Globe

“A triumph . . . equal in stature to the first volume of the series.”—Newsday

“Vivid . . . history in the grand manner.”—The Washington Post

“Compelling reading.”—The Times (London)

作者简介

威廉·曼彻斯特（WilliamManchester）（1922—2004），美国著名历史学家。主要作品除《光荣与梦想》外， 他还写出20世纪多位伟大人物之激动人心的传记，包括邱吉尔、麦克阿瑟、肯尼迪和洛克菲勒家族。他的第一本书写于27岁，书名为《和平的打扰者》，是为门肯所作的传记。该书立刻在评论界获得了成功。他共写有18部著作，包括两部小说，但近年来最为人熟知的作品，当属他为邱吉尔所作的宏篇巨传《最后的雄狮》（TheLastLion）。

William Manchester was a hugely successful popular historian and renowned biographer. In addition to the first two volumes of The Last Lion, his books include Goodbye, Darkness, A World Lit Only by Fire, The Glory and the Dream, The Arms of Krupp, American Caesar, and The Death of a President, as well as assorted works of journalism. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal and the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award. He passed away in 2004.