In "Dreams in a Time of War", Ngugi wa Thiong'o paints a mesmerizing portrait of a young boy's experiences in an African nation in flux. Beginning in the late 1930s, this moving and entertaining memoir describes Ngugi's day-to-day life as the fifth child of his father's third wife in a family that included twenty-four children born to four different mothers. Against the backdro...(展开全部)

克莱夫·哈维 ，英国音乐人、作曲家，曾与BBC合作出版音乐专辑《毕加索的画像》。 《杨的战争》是他历时两年创作的第一本书，他还为本书创作了配乐主题曲，以表达对中国劳工旅的谢意与纪念。

Ngugi wa Thiong'o was born the fifth child of his father's third wife, in a family that includes twenty-four children born to four different mothers. He spent his 1930s childhood as the apple of his mother's eye, before attending school to slake what is considered a bizarre thirst for learning. As he grows up, the wider political and social changes occurring in Kenya begin to i...(展开全部)

By the world-renowned novelist, playwright, critic, and author of Wizard of the Crow, an evocative and affecting memoir of childhood. Ngugi wa Thiong’o was born in 1938 in rural Kenya to a father whose four wives bore him more than a score of children. The man who would become one of Africa’s leading writers was the fifth child of the third wife. Even as World War II affecte...(展开全部)

By the world-renowned novelist, playwright, critic, and author of Wizard of the Crow, an evocative and affecting memoir of childhood. Ngugi wa Thiong’o was born in 1938 in rural Kenya to a father whose four wives bore him more than a score of children. The man who would become one of Africa’s leading writers was the fifth child of the third wife. Even as World War II affecte...(展开全部)

From the former secretary of defense, a strikingly candid, vividly written account of his experience serving Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Before Robert M. Gates received a call from the White House in 2006, he thought he’d left Washington politics behind: after working for six presidents in both the CIA and the National Sec...(展开全部)

Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead and James Jones’s The Thin Red Line . It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood. Sta...(展开全部)

作者简介 卡尔·马兰提斯（Karl Marlantes） 毕业于美国耶鲁大学，曾获得牛津大学罗德奖学金。虽然有常青藤名校背景，年轻的马兰提斯却志愿成为一名预备役军官，随后参加了越南战争。在战争期间，他被授予了海军十字勋章、铜星奖章、2枚海军荣誉勋章、2枚紫心勋章，以及10枚空军奖章。 越战的经历改写了马兰提斯的一生，《美国人眼中最真实的越南战争》是他花费30年光阴写下的呕心沥血之作。 译者简介 胡坚 1977年1月参军，服役18年。2008年开始发表翻译作品，译有长篇惊险小说《夜海钩沉》，《深海风暴》，《天黑前回家》；翻译军事史作品《自由开火地带——美国海豹突击队越南战记》，《英国陆军史：从英国内战到全球反恐》。

An incredible publishing storywritten over the course of thirty years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, a New York Times best seller for sixteen weeks, a National Indie Next and a USA Today best seller Matterhorn has been hailed as a brilliant account of war” ( New York Times Book Review ). Now out in paperback, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of No...(展开全部)