BATTLE FOR EMPIRE: THE VERY FIRST WORLD WAR 1756-63

Book ID/图书代码： 00530014B76023

English Summary/英文概要： The first world war was notthat which began in 1914, but the co-called Seven Years War which, in 1756, brought into being global conflict. The new factor which dramatically altered the course of history was British sea power. With the support of the navy, a few thousand men dispossessed the French of their fledgling North American empire and saw them, and the Dutch, utterly vanquished in India. Attacks on Cuba and the Philippines crippled the Spanish Empire. Through feats of extraordinary courage and endurance, fighting merchant adventurers such as Robert Clive laid the foundations of an Indian empire. In North America, soldiers such as the Virginia militia officer, George Washington, the future first President of the United States, and James Wolfe, who died in the battle for Quebec, determined that Canada would be British - not French. In this vivid account of this first ’modern’ war, Tom Pocock uses the testimony of eye-eitnesses to dramatic effect.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 波考特细述了这场长达七年的首次欧洲海战。本书还研究了欧洲战场之外的军事冲突，以及牵涉其中的各色将领奇才：在加拿大开战的乌尔夫和蒙特卡姆，在印度对战的克莱夫和拉里，……(Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况：Nigel Nicolson, The Spectator "Pocock’s book makes enthralling reading... his prose is excellent."

About the Author/作者介绍： 汤姆•波考克曾发表过18部，（和编辑过两本多）书籍，在这些作品中大多以传记为主，但也包括了他任战时记者的经历。1925年生于伦敦的波考克，父亲是一位小说家和教育家，曾在维斯特敏斯特和伯恩茅斯大学受过良好的教育，1943年加入英国皇家海军。在诺曼底登陆战期间，因身体不适而退役，1945年他成为一名年仅19岁的二战最为年轻的战地记者。在接下来的四年时间里，他为一家杂志社撰写时事新闻，之后成为《每日邮报》的专栏作家，1952年，波考特成为《泰晤士报》的海军随军记者。1956年，他作为《每日快报》的驻外特派专栏记者，1959年开始，波考特成为了《伦敦晚报》的国防专栏作家和战地记者。在最后十年时光里，波考特荣任《旗帜报》的社论撰稿人。波考特在1967年发表的第一部海军军事传记《纳尔逊和他的世界》，描述了在亚丁湾发生的冲突事件，而作者本人也对纳尔逊充满了浓厚的兴趣，乃至于之后的八部作品都围绕着这位英国历史上著名的海军上将和他同时代的人物。1987年，他因发表的《霍雷德•布雷肖》一书，而获得惠特布雷德传记奖。汤姆•波考克为许多杂志撰写过文章，并经常出现在有关纳尔逊电视纪录片有关的节目上。

Tom Pocock is the author of 18 books (and editor of two more), mostly biographies but including two about his experiences as a newspaper war correspondent. Born in London in 1925 - the son of the novelist and educationist Guy Pocock - he was educated at Westminster School and Cheltenham College, joining the Royal Navy in 1943. He was at sea during the invasion of Normandy and, having suffered from ill-health, returned to civilian life and in 1945 became a war correspondent at the age of 19,the youngest of the Second World War. After four years wth the Hulton Press current affairs magazine group, he moved to the Daily Mail as feature-writer and then Naval Correspondent, becoming Naval Correspondent of The Times in 1952. In 1956, he was a foreign corresponent and special writer for the Daily Express and from 1959 was on the staff of the Evening Standard,as feature writer,Defence Correspondent and war correspondent. For the last decade of his time on the Standard he was Travel Editor. He wrote his first book, NELSON AND HIS WORLD in 1967 on his return from reporting the violence in Aden and his interest in Nelson has continued. Indeed, eight of his books are about the admiral and his contemporaries; his HORATIO NELSON was runner-up for the Whitbread Biography Award of 1987. Tom Pocock has contributed to many magazines and appeared on television documentaries about Nelson and the subject of another of his biographies,the novelist and imperialist Sir Rider Haggard.

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