DARKNESS IN PARIS：THE ALLIES AND THE ECLIPSE OF FRANCE, 1940
Book ID/图书代码： 11980505B03888
English Summary/英文概要： Just when you thought you knew all about the Second World War, here is a superb narrative history of the year Western civilisation hung in the balance.
In May 1940 Germany invaded France, and defeated the Allies in six weeks. The victors of the Great War were mired in complacency, and outmanoeuvred by a new kind of warfare.
France mobilised five million men in 1940, while the British put up less than one-tenth of that number ¡ª and most of those came home at half-time. While the British gathered around their radios to hear Churchill make defiant speeches, the French suffered invasion, defeat, occupation, and the imposition of a Fascist regime.
It seemed that the Nazis were unbeatable, yet by the end of the year Germany had suffered a defeat, and Hitler made the first of two mistakes that were to doom his Thousand Year Reich.
Peter Ferguson has the rare ability to bring history to life. He transports the reader to perhaps the most important year in modern history and allows the reader to smell, live and breathe it. Through the conversations, thoughts and emotions of the men and women who changed history, Ferguson provides a dramatic insight into the fall of France, considered by many in the West to be the greatest catastrophe suffered by civilisation since ancient Rome fell to the barbarians.
It’s simply a great read.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 正当你想知道所有关于二战的事情的时候，从本书中你还将看到一个在那个年月里，对西方文明的那种安危不定的非常好的描述。
在1940年的五月德国入侵法国，并且在六周内击败了同盟国。这些一战的胜利者们立刻陷入了一种从未有过的满足感中，并且有了一种以策略致胜的新作战方式。
当英国只提供不到五十万人去支援法国时，法国在1940年动员了五百万人参加战争，并且那些从英国来支援法国的人，几乎在战争进行不到一半时就都回家了。当英国招集他们去收听丘吉尔的挑战宣言时，法国正遭受着入侵，失败，占领以及被迫去接受法西斯政权的统治。
看上去纳粹好像是无敌的，其实则不然，在战争结束的那一年德国经历了失败。希特勒也犯了一个致命的错误，把他的千年帝国引向了灭亡。
彼得·弗格森有着能把历史带入生活的这种少有的能力。他把现代历史中最重要几年的信息传递给读者，他让读者自己去发掘。通过改变历史的人们之间的思想和情感上的交流，弗格森对法国的衰落提供了一个戏剧性的理解，认为西方遭受的很多的大灾难是从古罗马文明变得粗鲁的那一天开始的。
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About the Author/作者介绍： Peter Ferguson became a copywriter in Sydney advertising shortly after leaving school.
This early start enabled him to win awards for his writing in Australia, the UK, and the
USA, to work in London during the 1960s ¡ª from whence he made the first of his visits
to France, where he studied French language and history. He is now retired and lives at
Avalon near Sydney, with his wife, where his interests are writing, history, and sailing.
This is his second book. His first, Crocodile on the Thames, was a novel set in London, France, and Egypt.
彼得·弗格森在离开学校不久后变成为了悉尼的广告撰写人。这个早期的经历使他的文章在澳大利亚，英国和美国赢得了不少的奖项。从1960年开始他就工作在伦敦——后来，他开始了第一次去法国的观光，他开始学习法语和法国的历史。他现在已退休，和他的妻子住在距离悉尼很近的阿瓦隆，他现在的兴趣是：写作和航行。
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