尼古拉斯•贝斯特（Nicholas Best）在英国和都柏林的圣三一学院接受教育。他曾在英国近卫步兵第一团服役，后在伦敦当记者。他为英国《金融时报》担任小说评论员长达十年时间，并著有讲述第一次世界大战结束时的故事的《历史上最伟大的一天》。

英媒：二战背景下引人关注的人物故事 2012年03月26日 12:24:22 来源： 新华网 上周出版的《震惊世界的五天》为英国—爱尔兰混血作家尼古拉斯·贝斯特所著，它从1945年4月28日上午开始讲起：意大利游击队员叫醒贝尼托·墨索里尼，然后用车把他及其情妇克拉拉·佩塔奇带到科莫湖边枪决。全书以1945年5月2日结束，随着希特勒在地堡中自杀的消息传遍全世界，柏林最后的守卫者缴械投降。英媒称，一本新书透过二战高潮时期的数十个人物的故事，从一个吸引人的角度让人们对这场冲突有了全新的了解。 据英国《泰晤士报》报道，《震惊世界的五天》以重大事件为背景，像拍快照一样介绍了一些重要人物当时身在何处，在做些什么。 在那不勒斯，10岁的索菲娅·罗兰与母亲和妹妹生活在极度贫困之中，她的一边脸颊在空袭中为弹片所伤。一个年轻的美国大兵与这家人成了朋友。他在日记中写道...(展开全部)

Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road. One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is yo...(展开全部)

Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War Two, By Keith Lowe Brendan Simms In his memoir If This is a Man, the Italian writer Primo Levi recalls that the most terrifying time for him at Auschwitz was not the years of incarceration by the Nazis, when beatings, hunger, back-breaking work and the threat of murder were omnipresent. He came closest to despair during the...(展开全部)

The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another 10 years ...Across Europe, landscapes had been ravaged, entire cities razed and more than 35 million people had been killed in the war. The institutions that we now take for granted - such as the police, the media, transport, local and national government - were either entirel...(展开全部)

Imagine a world without institutions. It is a world where borders between countries seem to have dissolved, leaving a single, endless landsc ape over which people travel in search of communities that no longer exist. There are no governments any more, neither on a national scale nor even on a local one. There are no schools or universities, no libraries or archives, no access t...(展开全部)

The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another 10 years ...Across Europe, landscapes had been ravaged, entire cities razed and more than 35 million people had been killed in the war. The institutions that we now take for granted - such as the police, the media, transport, local and national government - were either entirel...(展开全部)

Imagine a world without institutions. It is a world where borders between countries seem to have dissolved, leaving a single, endless landsc ape over which people travel in search of communities that no longer exist. There are no governments any more, neither on a national scale nor even on a local one. There are no schools or universities, no libraries or archives, no access t...(展开全部)

Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War Two, By Keith Lowe Brendan Simms In his memoir If This is a Man, the Italian writer Primo Levi recalls that the most terrifying time for him at Auschwitz was not the years of incarceration by the Nazis, when beatings, hunger, back-breaking work and the threat of murder were omnipresent. He came closest to despair during the...(展开全部)

Outside the island there is nothing: the world destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island: it is idyllic. 122 villagers and 3 scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they're told by the scientists. Until, to the horror of the islanders, one of thei...(展开全部)