CHURCHILL: THE STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL 1945-60

Book ID/图书代码： 03275005B10110

English Summary/英文概要： Lord Moran became Churchill’s doctor in 1940 and his devoted friend and confidant thereafter. Moran’s interest in the effects of war on the individual informed his study of this titanic figure, both during the struggle with Nazi Germany and in the post-war years when Churchill was battling against declining political influence and the handicaps of old age. The period between 1945 and 1960 saw Churchill’s defeat by Attlee, his re-election as a man of peace, the start of the Cold War and the handover of power to his protégé Eden. In private, those same years saw the decline of a man who had embodied the soul of a nation. From his first stroke in Monte Carlo in 1949 to his on-off deliberations about resigning, Moran’s diaries are the only source to give Churchill’s side of this story – the source on which historians rely. With the benefit of historical hindsight, this revised edition of Moran’s candid and controversial diaries reveals those forgotten years, and the great man himself, in a new, contemporary light. ‘One of the great biographies . . . like Boswell, Moran is a brilliant recorder of conversations and a wonderfully astute portraitist. He captures the way that Churchill’s virtues and strengths all shine through a palimpsest of weakness – the colossal bravery.’ AN Wilson, Telegraph ‘The years after 1945 [are] where Moran’s insights are most valuable . . . a perceptive, if tart, analyst of character.’ Professor David Reynolds, London Review of Books • Fully revised and updated edition sheds new light on these less-known years – fascinating and historically significant, an intimate and revealing portrait Charles McMoran Wilson was created 1st Baron Moran of Manton in 1943. He was decorated during the 1914–18 War, and in 1945 published his observations of men under the stress of war in The Anatomy of Courage. He became Winston Churchill’s doctor in 1940, and from 1941 to 1950 was President of the Royal College of Physicians. His diaries were first published by Constable in 1966. Winston Churchill called Lord Moran ’a devoted and personal friend’ to whose ’unfailing care I probably owe my life’.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1940年的时候Lord Moran成了邱吉尔的医生，自此以后两人结下了深厚的友谊，可以说无话不说。 Moran对战争会对个人产生的影响力非常感兴趣，这也为他研究这位政治巨人提供了很好的先决条件，不管是在二战的高峰时期，还是战后邱吉尔的政治势力每况愈下，年事颇高。 1945到1960年对邱吉尔来说非常特别，艾德礼击败了邱吉尔当上了首相，后又当选为“和平之士”，冷战也是在这时候开始的，权力也被转交到他的被保护人伊登手里。而从私人的角度讲，就在这十几年里，一个体现了民族灵魂的伟人的衰退了。从1949年邱吉尔在蒙特卡洛的第一次中风到陆陆续续考虑辞职，Moran的日记是唯一可以了解邱吉尔这段时期真实生活的资料，绝对有可信度。所以Moran的这些日记故事完全披露了那段被遗忘了的岁月，也让我们从全新的当代角度认识了这位伟人。 “

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About the Author/作者介绍： Charles McMoran Wilson一战的时候获得过奖章，1945年的时候出版了《解剖勇气》----一本集合他对大战压力下人们状况观察的作品。1940年的时候他成了邱吉尔的私人医生，1941年到1950年担任皇家内科医生协会的会长。1966年的时候他的日记第一次被出版。 邱吉尔把Lord Moran称为“一个忠实的私人朋友”，他给了我“无穷尽的照顾”。

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