朱利安·杰克逊（Julian Jackson）是伦敦大学玛丽女王学院的历史学教授，英国科学院和皇家历史学会的院士。他是研究戴高乐和20世纪法国历史的主要权威之一，曾经2004年凭借《法国的衰落》获得了世界顶尖的历史图书奖项——沃夫森历史奖。 为了全面细致地展示戴高乐和他所处的那段历史，杰克逊首次使用了2004年公开的戴高乐未发表资料及其最近研究成果，并深入研究了戴高乐的私人生活，将戴高乐的人格魅力展现得淋漓尽致。本书荣获2018年度美国图书馆巴黎图书奖，更被《纽约书评》评为戴高乐传记中的“丰碑”。

朱利安·杰克逊（Julian Jackson）是伦敦大学玛丽女王学院的历史学教授，英国科学院和皇家历史学会的院士。他是研究戴高乐和20世纪法国历史的主要权威之一，曾经2004年凭借《法国的衰落》获得了世界顶尖的历史图书奖项——沃夫森历史奖。 为了全面细致地展示戴高乐和他所处的那段历史，杰克逊首次使用了2004年公开的戴高乐未发表资料及其最近研究成果，并深入研究了戴高乐的私人生活，将戴高乐的人格魅力展现得淋漓尽致。本书荣获2018年度美国图书馆巴黎图书奖，更被《纽约书评》评为戴高乐传记中的“丰碑”。

约翰•朱利叶斯•诺威奇于1929年生于英国。服完兵役后，他在牛津大学新学院攻读了法语和俄语文学专业。 诺威奇著述颇丰，包括《征服，1016—1130》（The Normans in the South,1967)、《王国，1130—1194》（The Kingdom in the Sun,1970）、《地中海史》（The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean,2006）、《教皇史》（¬The Popes: A History,2011）、《四君主》（Four Princes, 2017）等。 他还写了多部关于旅游、建筑和音乐的著作。此外，他曾为英国广播公司的约30部纪录片撰稿。 ★译者简介 陈薇薇，浙江杭州人，自由译者。从事翻译十余载，译有《北方的观念》《蒙娜丽莎传奇》《概率统治世界》等。

I can still feel, as if it were yesterday, the excitement of my first Channel crossing (as a child of nearly 7) in September 1936; the regiment of porters, smelling asphyxiatingly of garlic in their blue-green blousons; the raucous sound all around me of spoken French; the immense fields of Normandy strangely devoid of hedges; then the Gare du Nord at twilight, the policemen wi...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews Amazon.com Here is a fascinating, detailed look at the life of Charles Darwin: naturalist, geologist, and independent thinker. In his author's note, Caldecott Honor illustrator Peter Sis (Starry Messenger, Tibet: Through the Red Box) writes that Darwin always regretted not learning how to draw. However, he could and did take "dense and vivid" written notes...(展开全部)

The life of Emperor Charles V (1500–1558), ruler of Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, and much of Italy and Central and South America, has long intrigued biographers. But the elusive nature of the man (despite an abundance of documentation), his relentless travel and the control of his own image, together with the complexity of governing the world’s rst transatlantic empire, com...(展开全部)

“In crafting the finest one-volume life of de Gaulle in English, Julian Jackson has come closer than anyone before him to demystifying this conservative at war with the status quo, for whom national interests were inseparable from personal honor.”—Richard Norton Smith, Wall Street Journal “Masterly…makes for awesome reading…an outstanding biography.”—Max Hastings, Sunday Times ...(展开全部)

In the early summer of 1940, when France was overrun by German troops, one junior general who had fought in the trenches in Verdun refused to accept defeat. He fled to London, where he took to the radio to address his compatriots back home. “Whatever happens,” he said, “the flame of French resistance must not be extinguished and will not be extinguished.” At that moment, Charle...(展开全部)