《 greatness的镜子：丘吉尔特和塑造了他的领导人》，英国版

English | October 12th, 2023 | ISBN: 0008439915 | 464 pages | True EPUB | 5.22 MB

A TELEGRAPH BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023

‘A highly imaginative and thought-provoking way of exploring the personality of a man who, like him or loathe him, left an indelible mark on our age’ ADAM ZAMOYSKI

Winston Churchill followed his own star. He yearned to be ‘great’, to gain historical immortality. And he did so through deeds and words: his actions as a soldier and politician, gilded by his writings as a journalist and historian.

But Churchill’s path to greatness was also defined by the leaders he encountered along the way – friends and foes, at home and abroad. Men of power such as Hitler and Mussolini, Roosevelt and Stalin, David Lloyd George, Neville Chamberlain and Charles de Gaulle. And the haunting presence of the adored father who had seen nothing of merit in his troublesome son. In these men Churchill discerned greatness, or its absence, in ways that influenced his own career.

This book includes some whom Churchill would not have deemed ‘great’, but who – in our own day – offer alternative mirrors of what that word might mean. Mahatma Gandhi, who infuriated Churchill by exploiting the power of powerlessness. Clement Attlee, whose heretical vision of ‘Great Britain’ was socialist and post-imperial. And his darling Clementine, channelling her ‘pinko’ sentiments to become Winston’s essential helpmate and most devoted critic.

Mirrors of Greatness offers vivid new perspectives on Churchill’s life and work, showing how this unique man – with dazzling gifts and jagged flaws – learned from his ‘great contemporaries’ and what they saw in him.

2023年最佳历史书籍之一

“一种极具想象力且令人深思的方式来探索一个既被爱又被憎的人在他生前对我们时代所留下的不可磨灭的印记” 亚当·扎摩斯基（Adam Zamoyski）说道。

温斯顿·丘吉尔（Winston Churchill）遵循了自己的道路。他渴望成为“伟大”的人，寻求历史上的不朽地位。他是通过他的作为军人和政治家的行为以及作为一名记者和历史学家所写的文字来实现这一目标的。

但丘吉尔的道路走向伟大也由他沿途遇到的人们所定义——朋友与敌人，国内与国外的人物。如希特勒、墨索里尼，罗斯福和斯大林，大卫·劳合·乔治（David Lloyd George）、内维尔·张伯伦（Neville Chamberlain）和夏尔·戴高乐（Charles de Gaulle）。还有被人们喜爱但对他的麻烦的儿子一无所知的父亲。在这些人物身上，丘吉尔从他们眼中看到的伟大或其缺失之处影响了他的职业生涯。

这本书包括了一些丘吉尔认为不“伟大”的人，但在我们这个时代的镜子中却展示了“伟大”这个词可能意味着什么。如甘地（Mahatma Gandhi），他因利用无能为力的力量而激怒了丘吉尔；克伦白夫·阿特莱（Clement Attlee）有着异端邪说般对“伟大英国”的愿景，那是社会主义和后帝国主义的；以及他的宠妃克莱门蒂娜（Clementine），她将自己粉色的倾向传递给丘吉尔，使他成为不可或缺的帮助者，并且是最忠实的批评家。

《镜像中的伟大》提供了鲜明的新视角来审视丘吉尔的生命与工作，展示这位独特的人物——拥有非凡才能和棱角分明缺点的人是如何从“伟大的同代人”及他们眼中的他身上学习的。

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