EMPIRE OF THE CLOUDS: WHEN BRITAIN’S AIRCRAFT RULED THE WORLD
Book ID/图书代码： 04560010B39623
English Summary/英文概要： In 1945 Britain inherited the title of the world’s leading pioneer and builder of jet aircraft.
And how extraordinary these aircraft were over the next ten years. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an intercontinental bomber that could be thrown about the sky like a fighter. The Hawker Hunter, the most beautiful fighter-jet ever built, and the Lightning, which could zoom ten miles above the clouds in a couple of minutes and whose pilots rated flying it as better than sex.
By the early 1960s, the designers, the extremely brave test pilots and the legendary companies they worked for - Avro, Hawker, Vickers, de Havilland - were gone or facing a bleak future. A heroic and distinguished industry was coming to an end, and now these magnificent planes are much-loved museum pieces.
What was it like to be alive in that marvellous post-war decade when innovative new British aircraft made their debut several times a year, and pilots were the rock stars of the age? And how did Britain lose the plot so completely?
James Hamilton-Paterson captures that season of glory in a compelling story that fuses his own memories of being a schoolboy plane-spotter with a rueful history of Britain’s loss of self-confidence and power. It is a glimpse of a vanished world: the exhilarating story of atomic-age aviation pioneers, their great and charismatic machines, and the men who flew them.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1945年，英国继承了世界领先喷气飞机的开拓者和建设者称号。
这些飞机在未来的10年会发展到怎样的非同凡响。第一架喷气式飞机客机——光滑的“彗星”，神乎其神的三角洲翼“火神”——一架好比战斗机一样冲向天空的洲际轰炸机，“霍克猎人”——有史以来最漂亮的喷气战斗机，“闪电”——可以在云层之上两分钟内变焦十里，飞行员甚至认为其飞行性能好过做爱。
到了60年代初期，设计师、非常勇敢的试飞员以及他们工作的传奇公司——阿夫罗、霍克、维氏和德哈维兰——都不见了或是面临着一个暗淡的未来。一个传奇而闻名的行业正在走向消亡，现在这些宏伟的飞机是深受人们喜爱的博物馆藏物。
是什么让这在战后神奇的10年里继续存在，尤其是在一年里多次新式英国飞机亮相，飞行员向摇滚明星一样耀眼的时代？以及英国飞机是如何完全丧失其地位的？
詹姆斯•汉密尔顿-佩特森抓住了那荣光岁月的精彩故事，融合了自己孩童时候目睹大英帝国失去自信与力量的凄怜历史的记忆。这是一个已经消失的世界：振奋人心的原子时代的航空先驱，他们的伟大而又魅力无穷的机器以及那些驾驭它们的人们的故事。(兼职翻译-JDM)
Awards/获奖情况：“一本令人振奋的书。《云霄帝国》轮番上演着惊险、欢乐、渴望和挑战。勇敢和美丽在某种程度上逃离了纯英国式的《右翼势力》的无能和官场随意。我喜欢它。”——罗兰•怀特，《火神607》和《凤凰中队》的作者
“这是一本令人着迷的书，告诉我们什么最可能成为英国军事航空最后进军。汉密尔顿-帕特森先生是一个知识渊博、卓有成就的作家，他的热情和他的愤怒是极具感染力。”——莱恩•戴顿
“从第一页上火神轰炸机滔天轮激一个山角开始，这就是一次关于所有硝烟弥漫的挽歌，飞行工程的专家，驾驭它们令人崇拜的男人以及英国消失的技术带来的愤怒。”——弗朗西斯•斯帕佛德，《幕后男孩》的作者
“一个关于空中奇迹、声震、精湛的飞机和英国英雄人物的故事，由作者娓娓道来。”——乔纳森•葛朗塞，《火喷》的作者
About the Author/作者介绍： 詹姆斯•汉密尔顿-佩特森的作品被译成多种文字。他是一个受到高度赞扬的非小说类书籍作者，作品包括《7/10》、《三英里之下》、《戏水》以及《美国的男孩》、《费迪南德•马科斯的研究》和《菲律宾》。他的第一部小说《莫斯科的城市居民》赢得了Whitbread文学奖，而他最近的《钟爱怪物》(2001年)被《星期日电讯报》称赞为“诱惑人而又博学巧妙”。他目前住在意大利。 James Hamilton-Paterson’s work has been translated into many languages. He is a highly acclaimed author of non-fiction books, including Seven-Tenths, Three Miles Down and Playing with Water, as well as America’s Boy, a study of Ferdinand Marcos and the Philippines. Gerontius, his first novel, won the Whitbread Award, while his most recent, Loving Monsters (2001), was praised by the Sunday Telegraph as ’tantalising, erudite and ingenious’. He lives in Italy.
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