STOPPING NAPOLEON: WAR AND INTRIGUE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN
Book ID/图书代码： 00530014B76024
English Summary/英文概要： After his defeat by Nelson at Trafalgar, Napoleon knew he could never invade England. Many thought he would try to take over the vast, crumbling Ottoman Empire, return to Egypt and even march on India. So the British concentrated on the Mediterranean: for a decade it became the scene of dangers - real or imagined - and of battles - both on land and at sea. All was dictated by a fierce determination to stop Napoleon.
There were triumphs and disasters in remote and exotic places, and a Trafalgar in miniature was fought between frigate squadrons in the Adriatic. The Peninsular War might well have been fought in another peninsula: Italy. Bizarre rulers had to be flattered, or fought: the Bourbons in Palmero and Napoleon’s dashing brother-in-law, Marshal Murat, King of Naples. The successors to Nelson and predecessors of Wellington fought there, amongst them Lord Collingwood, Sir Sidney Smith and Sir John Moore. Napoleon himself materialised at his most magnificent in Venice and in humiliating exile on Elba. Of course, Napoleon himself did not see it like that, and the outcome was startling for all...
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在特拉法尔加海战遭遇纳尔逊重创之后，拿破仑知道自己已经无法再入侵英格兰。许多人认为他会试图接手当时庞大且濒临崩塌的奥斯曼帝国，回到埃及，甚至有可能回进军印度。因此英国人开始关注地中海：十年间，这一区域成为了真实和虚幻之间危险的战场。而这所有的这一切都是为了遏制拿破仑试图扩张的野心。
在这片充满异国情调的遥远地方回荡凯旋的胜利和灾难，特拉法尔加海战另一个缩小的版本在亚得里亚海护卫舰中上演。英伦半岛战役或许可能已经在另一个岛屿间进行：意大利，作为别扭的统治者不得不装出一副受宠若惊的姿态，去参与这场战事：波旁王朝的帕尔梅洛和拿破仑浮躁的小舅子，穆拉特元帅，那不勒斯的国王。纳尔逊和惠灵顿的继任者，这些人当中包括克林伍德勋爵，西德尼•史密斯和约翰•摩尔男爵接过了纳尔逊的这面旗帜。而拿破仑却迷失在威尼斯的纸醉金迷之中，最终屈辱地被流放至厄尔巴岛。当然，拿破仑本人是不会预见到这些的，而一场恢宏的历史即将拉开帷幕… （Sandy）
Awards/获奖情况：’A stirring, often humorous yarn... Pocock... restored this neglected campaign to its true importance in this lively and important book’ (Sunday Times 20040613)
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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