THE GENERAL: CHARLES DE GAULLE AND THE FRANCE HE SAVED
Book ID/图书代码： 12290010B37902
English Summary/英文概要： No leader of modern times was more unique and more uniquely national than Charles de Gaulle. As founder and first President of the Fifth Republic, General de Gaulle saw himself ’carrying France on my shoulders’.
When he first emerged on to the world stage in 1940, his insistence that he spoke for his nation might well have appeared impossibly arrogant for a recently promoted junior general who had never been elected to anything. But he personified many of the traits of his country which fascinate the rest of the world - its pride in itself, its intransigence, its historical and cultural heritage and its quasi-religious belief in the state.
Le Genéral, as he became known from 1940 on, appeared as if carved from a single monumental block, but was, in fact, extremely complex, a man with deep personal feelings and recurrent mood swings, devoted to his family and often seeking reassurance from those around him. Though insisting on discipline and loyalty from others, he was a great rebel. A grand visionary with a vast geo-political grasp and elephantine memory, he was also a supreme tactician with a taste for secrecy and the ability to out-flank opponents.
This is a magisterial, sweeping biography of one of the great leaders of the twentieth century and of the country with which he so identified himself. Written with terrific verve and narrative skill, and yet rigorous and detailed, it brings alive as never before the private man as well as the public leader through exhaustive research and astute analysis.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 沒有一位近代國家領袖能像夏爾•戴高樂那樣與眾不同。作為法蘭西第五共和國的創始人和第一位總統，戴高樂將軍見證了‘自己肩負起著法國命運的使命’。當他在1940年第一次出現在世界舞臺上時，他堅持地認為，他的國家很可能最近為了提升未有建樹的年輕將軍而顯得無比傲慢。但他標有國家人格化的許多特點- 他本身的自傲、不妥協、極其個人歷史和文化遺產和對國家的類似信仰，卻令世界其他地區國家著迷。自從1940年起，他成了著名的樂勒將軍，看上去似乎堅忍不拔，但事實上，這個男人卻有著極其複雜的深邃個人情感和時常激動的情緒，他忠於自己的家庭，經常從這些家人身邊尋找慰籍。雖然對他人提倡嚴以律己和忠誠，但其實他曾經非常反叛。運用自己對地緣政治把握和強大的記憶能力的偉大卓識，他還是一位隱蔽戰線的最高戰略家和具有高超戰術的對手。這是一部權威的、廣泛地描述二十世紀偉大的領袖將國家視如己出的一部傳記。充滿神韻的敘事技巧，以及精緻的細節描述，通過詳盡的調查和充滿睿智的分析再現了一位公眾領袖的另一面。(Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况：`Subtle and skilful . . . brilliant’---Daily Telegraph
’Skilful and subtle . . . brilliant’---Douglas Hurd, Daily Telegraph
’A fine book’---Ben Macintyre, the Times
’Superb’---France Inter radio
’The best English-language biography of de Gaulle’---Scotsman
[Note to Amazon, please remove the first Telegraph review, since it is repeated, and replace it with this Economist quote:] ’Magisterial’---Economist
’This is the best English-language biography of de Gaulle’---Scotsman
’Finely nuanced and highly readable . . . President Sarkozy has much to learn from this tale’---Andrew Hussey, Observer
’Most readable and sensible judgments’---Max Hastings, Sunday Times
’Monumental . . . most enjoyable’---Don Morrison, Financial Times
About the Author/作者介绍： 喬納森是2006年的Trusted Sources創始人之一。他是在中國強勢投資環境的資深分析師。他的專業領域是對政策、政治和更廣泛的政治經濟的解析。他在北京和倫敦的辦事處成立Trusted Sources四人團隊。喬納森作為一個對中國的政治、經濟和社會事務有著豐富的經驗的作家和評論員。他曾任《南華早報》、《觀察家報》和《路透社世界服務報》的編輯，並曾是《經濟學家》的一位元資深記者。他是是5本關於中國書籍的作者，最近由企鵝出版社發行的《中國近代史》以及被哈珀柯林斯挑選的一本書被《經濟學家》和《金融時報》2008年年度首選書籍。他經常在美國全國廣播公司財經頻道、英國廣播公司和彭博資訊以及其他廣播媒體，英國、美國、歐洲和東亞地區發表關於當代中國的講座。Jonathan Fenby is a British journalist and was editor of the Observer newspaper from 1993 to 1995. He is the author of The Penguin History of Modern China; Dragon Throne: China’s Emperors from the Qin to the Manchu; China: The Longest Journey 1850-1949; and The Seventy Wonders of China.
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