NO LESS THAN VICTORY

Book ID/图书代码： 01240009B30891

English Summary/英文概要： No Less Than Victory is the crowning achievement in master storyteller Jeff Shaara’s soaring World War II trilogy, revealing the European war’s unforgettable and harrowing final act.
After the success of the Normandy invasion, the Allied commanders are buoyantly confident that the war in Europe will be over in a matter of weeks, that Hitler and his battered army have no other option than surrender. But despite the advice of his best military minds, Hitler will hear no talk of defeat. In mid-December 1944, the Germans launch a desperate and ruthless counteroffensive in the Ardennes forest, utterly surprising the unprepared Americans who stand in their way. Through the frigid snows of the mountainous terrain, German tanks and infantry struggle to realize Hitler’s goal: divide the Allied armies and capture the vital port at Antwerp. The attack succeeds in opening up a wide gap in the American lines, and for days chaos reigns in the Allied command. Thus begins the Battle of the Bulge, the last gasp by Hitler’s forces that becomes a horrific slugging match, some of the most brutal fighting of the war. As American commanders respond to the stunning challenge, the German spear is finally blunted.
Though some in the Nazi inner circle continue the fight to secure Germany’s postwar future, the Führer makes it clear that he is fighting to the end. He will spare nothing–not even German lives–to preserve his twisted vision of a “Thousand Year Reich.” But in May 1945, the German army collapses, and with Russian troops closing in, Hitler commits suicide. As the Americans sweep through the German countryside, they unexpectedly encounter the worst of Hitler’s crimes, the concentration camps, and young GIs find themselves absorbing firsthand the horrors of the Holocaust.
Presenting his riveting account through the eyes of Eisenhower and Patton and the young GIs who struggle face-to-face with their enemy, and through the eyes of Germany’s old soldier, Gerd von Rundstedt, and Hitler’s golden boy, Albert Speer, Jeff Shaara carries the reader on a journey that defines the spirit of the soldier and the horror of a madman’s dreams. No Less Than Victory further solidifies Shaara’s reputation as this era’s most accomplished author of historical military fiction.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 胜利这本书是杰夫·莎拉关于二战三部曲中最出挑的一部。它揭发了欧洲战争令人难以忘怀的最后一幕。在诺曼底成功登陆之后，同盟国的将领们自信的认为欧洲战场会在几星期内结束，希特勒和他那受挫的军队除了投降之外，别无选择。但是希特勒却听不进任何失败的消息，他不顾自己最好的军事智囊团所提出的建议，在1944年12月中旬，德军对在阿登森林的美军进行了一次破釜沉舟式的偷袭，使美军大为震惊。德国的坦克和步兵在穿越山区的雪地时，渐渐理解了希特勒的目的：截断同盟军，占领安特卫普的要害。这场进攻成功的在美军火线打开了缺口，引起了同盟军中数日的混乱与骚动。接着便打响了坦克战役，这也是希特勒的最后反击，不久便演变成一场残酷的生死决斗。而美军此刻也积极地响应，对此进行了反击，德军的力量很快被削弱下去。
尽管德军内部一些人提出自保，以此为德国在战后赢得丝毫余地，但是希特勒却坚持战斗到最后一刻，他将用一切，包括德国自身的命运，来换取他的千年帝国梦。但很快，美军便占领了德国，希特勒无路可退，就此了决了自己的生命。在美军通过德国的乡下地带时，他们意外的发现了希特勒最罪无可恕的行为：集中营。年轻的士兵们就这样近距离的体会到了大屠杀的残忍与恐怖。
通过艾森豪，巴顿，那些曾和敌人面对面对决过的年轻士兵们，以及德国老兵戈尔德·冯·伦斯德，希特勒的宠儿艾伯特·施皮尔的经历，杰夫将读者带进一段定义勇士精神与一个狂人的梦想所带来的恐惧旅程之中，这本历史军事小说为莎拉奠定了执牛耳的地位。(ZH)

Awards/获奖情况：作者之前作品版權已售
Jeff Shaara’s publishers: Brazil: To the Last Man, The Rising Tide (Editora Bertrand Brasil); Holland: To the Last Man (Dulce et Decorum); Poland: Gods and Generals; Spain: The Rising Tide, The Steel Wave (Editorial Planeta S.A) Gods and Generals (Bibliopolis); UK/British Commonwealth: To the Last Man
(Transworld), The Last Full Measure (Cannongate Books), Gods and Generals (Berlinn Ltd.).

之前作品review
Praise for The Steel Wave:
**"It is a considerable accomplishment to bring emotion and freshness to an event so familiar, but in this great, often moving novel of conflict, Shaara channels the roiling experiences of men in the midst of a tumultuous enterprise whose outcome was by no means certain" - St. Louis Post-Dispatch
**"In breathless prose ... Shaara vividly depicts the searing sights and sounds, the feeling of combat. Pounding with fierce action and human drama, and packed with accurately rendered history." - St. Petersburg Times
Praise for The Rising Tide:
**"[Sharra is] giving the people what they want--and what they need...Mr. Shaara’s research is finely woven into his narrative." --Wall Street Journal
**"[A] sprawling tale thoroughly researched and told with meticulous detail . . . All that’s missing is the smell of gunpowder." --MSNBC.com

杰夫·莎拉的出版商：巴西：《直到最后一人》，《大潮涌起》；荷兰：《直到最后一人》；波兰：《众神与将军》；西班牙：《大潮涌起》，《钢铁波浪》，《众神与将军》；英国/英联邦：《直到最后一人》，《终极衡量》，《众神与将军》。
之前作品回顾：
对《钢铁波浪》的书评：
“作者把我们如此熟悉的事件夹杂着情感带到我们面前。在这本激动人心的战争作品中，莎拉向我们展示了身处风头浪尖、飘忽不定事业的人的经历。”---《圣路易斯邮报》
“让人惊心动魄。。。作者活灵活现地写出了战争的声与光，感与情。人类的戏剧再一次上演，历史再一次重现。”---《圣彼得堡时报》
《大潮涌起》的书评：
“莎拉写出了大家所想的，和所需的。。。同时他的调查也与他的叙述紧密结合在一起。”---《华尔街日报美国版》
“详尽的描述，细致的描写。。。我们只差闻不到火药味了。”---微软全国广播公司线上

About the Author/作者介绍： Jeff Shaara is the New York Times bestselling author of The Rising Tide, To the Last Man, The Glorious Cause, Rise to Rebellion, and Gone for Soldiers, as well as Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure--two novels that complete the Civil War trilogy that began with his father’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, The Killer Angels. Shaara was born into a family of Italian immigrants in New Brunswick, New Jersey graduated from Florida State University. He lives in Sarasota. Visit the author online at www.JeffShaara.com

杰夫·沙拉是纽约时报《大潮涌起》，《直到最后一人》，《光辉事业》，《奋勇反抗》，《为战士而逝》的畅销书作者。《众神与将军》和《终极衡量》这两部小说终结了内战三部曲，以他父亲赢得普利特奖的小说《杀手天使》为首部。莎拉一家意大利到纽泽西新不伦瑞克省的移民。他从佛罗里达州立大学毕业。现居萨拉索塔。参阅www.JeffShaara.com知道此作者更多内容。

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