作者：AndrewRoberts
出版社：AllenLane
副标题：WalkingwithDestiny
出版年：2018-10-4
页数：1152
定价：GBP35.00
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780241205631
内容简介
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In this landmark biography of Winston Churchill based on extensive new material, the true genius of the man, statesman and leader can finally be fully seen and understood–by the bestselling, award-winning author of Napoleon and The Storm of War
When we seek an example of great leaders with unalloyed courage, the person who comes to mind is Winston Churchill: the iconic, visionary war leader immune from the consensus of the day, who stood firmly for his beliefs when everyone doubted him. But how did young Winston become Churchill? What gave him the strength to take on the superior force of Nazi Germany when bombs rained on London and so many others had caved? In Churchill, Andrew Roberts gives readers the full and definitive Winston Churchill, from birth to lasting legacy, as personally revealing as it is compulsively readable.
Roberts gained exclusive access to extensive new material: transcripts of War Cabinet meetings, diaries, letters and unpublished memoirs from Churchill's contemporaries. The Royal Family permitted Roberts–in a first for a Churchill biographer–to read the detailed notes taken by King George VI in his diary after his weekly meetings with Churchill during World War II. This treasure trove of access allows Roberts to understand the man in revelatory new ways, and to identify the hidden forces fueling Churchill's legendary drive.
We think of Churchill as a hero who saved civilization from the evils of Nazism and warned of the grave crimes of Soviet communism, but Roberts's masterwork reveals that he has as much to teach us about the challenges leaders face today–and the fundamental values of courage, tenacity, leadership and moral conviction.
作者简介
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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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斯班瑟家给了作者使用大部分档案的许可，条件是什么能写什么不能写要事先征求家族的同意。对于了解丘吉尔的公务政治生涯具备有限价值。
destiny贯穿全书。命运给邱提供了强大的关系，不受他人影响的自信，devotion to his country，相信it's within his right去领导自己的国家，衣食无忧的生活，让他有精力专注工作。说实在，普通人能不为衣食担忧，出门就能travel first class，哪有那么多烦恼，再加上一点点坚持，努力和信念，做出一番事业也不是难事。关键就是我们普通人必须得先考虑活下去…
这书的长度和阅读难度可能都是我久违了的高峰。但是真的写的太详尽了，也算很客观了吧，毕竟哪有人授权全是八卦的传记作品呢。名字也起的好，我真要怀疑丘吉尔也是时空穿越者了
极其详尽的一本丘吉尔传记，因为太长，还在阅读中，对于了解这个人的一生思想轨迹和行为根源颇有帮助。
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