Erik Larson’s latest work of narrative nonfiction is DEAD WAKE: THE LAST CROSSING OF THE LUSITANIA, which became an immediate New York Times bestseller. His saga of the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893, THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY, was a finalist for the National Book Award, and won an Edgar Award for fact-crime writing, and lingered on various NYT best-seller lists for the better part of a decade. Hulu plans to adapt the book for a limited TV series, with Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese as executive producers. Erik’s IN THE GARDEN OF BEASTS, about America’s first ambassador to Nazi Germany and his daughter, has been optioned by Tom Hanks for development as a feature film.
His next book, THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE: A SAGA OF CHURCHILL, FAMILY, AND DEFIANCE DURING THE BLITZ, due out in early spring 2020, is a story of geopolitical brinksmanship during Churchill’s first year as prime minister, but also an intimate domestic drama, set against the backdrop of Churchill’s prime-ministerial country house, Chequers, and his “full-moon home,” Ditchley, where Churchill, his family, and his “Secret Circle” convene when the moon is in its brightest phases and the bombing threat is highest.
Erik is a former features writer for The Wall Street Journal and Time. His magazine stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's and other publications.
He has taught non-fiction writing at San Francisco State, the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, the University of Oregon, and the Chuckanut Writers Conference, and has spoken to audiences from coast to coast. A former resident of Seattle, he now lives in Manhattan with his wife, a neonatologist and author of the nonfiction memoir, ALMOST HOME, which, as Erik puts it, "could make a stone cry." They have three daughters in far-flung locations and professions.
On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons (30,000 of them Londoners) and destroying two million homes. It was up to Churchill to hold the country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally--that she was willing to fight to the end.
一邊在轟炸,一邊在跳舞,英國人那時候是真的堅韌。花瞭兩個晚上看完,文字很平瞭,沒太大驚喜。
評分##記錄丘吉爾和二戰的書太多瞭,這本還能挖齣新角度,並且寫得如此好看,不容易。 作者從各種書信日記中拼湊齣丘吉爾40年臨危受命後一整年的英國全景。首相鐵打的抗戰決心和演講技能自然是重點,讓民眾既沉痛直麵現實又深受鼓舞。另一關鍵是他很早認清現實,處心積慮woo羅斯福。英國作為全村最後的希望如此頑強,真的非他不可。 感慨於聚光燈之外幾位執行者的重要性--傲嬌的Lord Beaverbrook打破常規加速造戰鬥機,病殃殃的Harry Hopkins促成英美牽綫,他們實際改變瞭戰爭走嚮。 希特勒副手Hess孤身飛入英國太神瞭,為Führer忠誠奉獻到失瞭智,這段真有意思。 通篇迴顧,狂轟亂炸下英國人的生活並未停滯。年輕人還在戀愛,夜店依舊歡歌。無論夜幕如何殘酷,天亮後萬物生長,可謂奇跡般的韌性。
評分##那段曆史太迷人瞭。Rule Britannia! [Bojo號稱視丘吉爾為偶像 - 但凡能學到半點皮毛也不至於這麼辣雞
評分##記錄丘吉爾和二戰的書太多瞭,這本還能挖齣新角度,並且寫得如此好看,不容易。 作者從各種書信日記中拼湊齣丘吉爾40年臨危受命後一整年的英國全景。首相鐵打的抗戰決心和演講技能自然是重點,讓民眾既沉痛直麵現實又深受鼓舞。另一關鍵是他很早認清現實,處心積慮woo羅斯福。英國作為全村最後的希望如此頑強,真的非他不可。 感慨於聚光燈之外幾位執行者的重要性--傲嬌的Lord Beaverbrook打破常規加速造戰鬥機,病殃殃的Harry Hopkins促成英美牽綫,他們實際改變瞭戰爭走嚮。 希特勒副手Hess孤身飛入英國太神瞭,為Führer忠誠奉獻到失瞭智,這段真有意思。 通篇迴顧,狂轟亂炸下英國人的生活並未停滯。年輕人還在戀愛,夜店依舊歡歌。無論夜幕如何殘酷,天亮後萬物生長,可謂奇跡般的韌性。
評分 評分 評分##用近乎小說的寫法,敘述瞭1940年5月到的941年5月丘吉爾作二戰期間英國首相第一年的點點滴滴:40年5月底6月初的敦刻爾剋,9月開始的德國空軍對倫敦和英國其他地區的轟炸,丘吉爾對羅斯福及其特派人員的“投懷送抱”但又同時要麵對本國人民對他過分依賴美國的批判,還有他身邊親近人物的故事(女兒Mary,私人秘書之一的Colville-這兩人的日記有被作者大量引用),以及一些普通英國民眾的心酸(作者依舊是引用私人日記和一些雜誌收集的讀者迴復)。看得齣作者是用心的,也是想在眾多的丘吉爾/二戰研究作品中脫穎而齣獨樹一幟。文筆並沒有很特彆,感覺還可以再精雕細琢一些,不過估計也就不會有那麼大的受眾瞭吧。
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