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·赫爾曼（Arthur Herman），美國著名曆史學傢、暢銷書作傢。霍普金斯大學史學博士，曾在蘇格蘭愛丁堡大學訪學。1980年代至1990年代在美國天主教大學、喬治城大學、喬治梅森大學等多所大學任教，現任哈德遜研究所高級研究員。2007年至2009年，他作為第一個非英籍人士被任命為蘇格蘭文化藝術委員會委員。赫爾曼的著作主題宏大、史料紮實、文筆生動，學術性與可讀性兼具，暢銷不衰，深受各界人士的推崇。