Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister. Born five years and seven thousand miles apart, they became embodiments of the nations they led. Both became living icons, idolized and admired around the world. Today, they remain enduring models of leadership in a democratic society. Yet the truth was Churchill and Gandhi were bitter enemies throughout their lives. This book reveals, for the first time, how that rivalry shaped the twentieth century and beyond. For more than forty years, from 1906 to 1948, Gandhi and Churchill were locked in a tense struggle for the hearts and minds of the British public, and of world opinion. Although they met only once, their titanic contest of wills would decide the fate of nations, continents, peoples, and ultimately an Empire. Here is a sweeping epic with a fascinating supporting cast, and a brilliant narrative parable of two men whose great successes were always haunted by personal failure - and whose final moments of triumph were overshadowed by the loss of what they held most dear.

阿瑟·赫尔曼（Arthur Herman），美国著名历史学家、畅销书作家。霍普金斯大学史学博士，曾在苏格兰爱丁堡大学访学。1980年代至1990年代在美国天主教大学、乔治城大学、乔治梅森大学等多所大学任教，现任哈德逊研究所高级研究员。2007年至2009年，他作为第一个非英籍人士被任命为苏格兰文化艺术委员会委员。赫尔曼的著作主题宏大、史料扎实、文笔生动，学术性与可读性兼具，畅销不衰，深受各界人士的推崇。