One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed 'The Quack who saved a King'. Logue wasn't a British aristocrat or even an Englishman - he was a commoner and ...(展开全部)

The "quack" who saved a king... Featuring a star-studded cast of Academy Award® winners and nominees, The King's Speech won the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award and is generating plenty of Oscar buzz. This official film tie-in is written by London Sunday Times journalist Peter Conradi and Mark Logue--grandson of Lionel Logue, one of the movie's ce...(展开全部)

"The Man Who Stayed Behind" is the remarkable story of Sidney Rittenberg, an American student activist and labour organiser who joined the military, became fluent in Chinese, was sent to China by the U.S. military in the 1940s, became caught up in the turbulence that engulfed that country, and remained there until the late 1970s. Here he tells how he argued dogma with Mao Zedon...(展开全部)

李敦白（Sidney Rittenberg，1921年8月14日-2019年8月24日），犹太裔美国学者，生于美国南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿的一个犹太家庭。美国进步人士。一九四五年来中国。一九四六年七月和十月，先后在张家口、延安新华广播电台从事英语广播稿的编辑和播音工作。

李敦白（Sidney Rittenberg，1921年8月14日-2019年8月24日），犹太裔美国学者，生于美国南卡罗来纳州查尔斯顿的一个犹太家庭。美国进步人士。一九四五年来中国。一九四六年七月和十月，先后在张家口、延安新华广播电台从事英语广播稿的编辑和播音工作。

"The Man Who Stayed Behind" is the remarkable story of Sidney Rittenberg, an American student activist and labour organiser who joined the military, became fluent in Chinese, was sent to China by the U.S. military in the 1940s, became caught up in the turbulence that engulfed that country, and remained there until the late 1970s. Here he tells how he argued dogma with Mao Zedon...(展开全部)

Tom Rob Smith-the author whose debut, Child 44, has been called "brilliant" (Chicago Tribune), "remarkable" (Newsweek) and "sensational" (Entertainment Weekly)-returns with an intense, suspenseful new novel: a story where the sins of the past threaten to destroy the present, where families must overcome unimaginable obstacles to save their loved ones, and where hope for a bette...(展开全部)

The Soviet Union 1956: after Stalin's death, a violent regime is beginning to fracture. Stalin's successor Khrushchev pledges reform. But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget the past. Leo Demidov, former MGB officer, is facing his own turmoil. His adopted daughters have yet to forgive him for his part in the brutal murder of their parents. They are not...(展开全部)

本书为2008年全球公认的最为出色的推理作品《第四十四个孩子（Child 44）》的续集。故事发生在1956年，赫鲁晓夫当政之后，发表了一份谴责斯大林滥用职权、个人崇拜的秘密报告。利奥·德米多夫在本书中调任为负责凶杀案的警察，早已远离他在MGB工作的时光。但是他从前的同事，害怕那些受害者的报复，开始担心他们的生命受到威胁。利奥曾将一名牧师下狱，牧师的妻子弗瑞拉现在成为一个暴力团伙的首领，弗瑞拉绑架了利奥的养女佐娅，威胁说，如果利奥不把他丈夫从古拉格放出来，她就杀死佐娅…… 本书的场景从莫斯科直到西伯利亚，还牵涉到1956年的匈牙利事件，描绘了后斯大林时代的黎明景象。本书剧情明快，事件众多，堪称苏联社会的缩影。

The Soviet Union 1956: after Stalin's death, a violent regime is beginning to fracture. Stalin's successor Khrushchev pledges reform. But there are forces at work that are unable to forgive or forget the past. Leo Demidov, former MGB officer, is facing his own turmoil. His adopted daughters have yet to forgive him for his part in the brutal murder of their parents. They are not...(展开全部)