From one of our most influential journalists, here is a timely, vital, and illuminating account of the next stage of China's modernization—its plan to rival America as the world's leading aerospace power and to bring itself from its low-wage past to a high-tech future. Over the past ten years air traffic has declined in most of the world, but in China it has more than doubled...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy Company, 506th Airborne Division, U.S. Army, kept getting the tough assignments -- responsible for everything from parachuting into France early D-Day morning to the capture of Hitler's Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. In Band of Brothers, Ambrose tells of the men in this brave unit who fought, went hungry, froze, and ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Through soldiers' journals and letters, describes Easy Company's contributions to the campaigns in western Europe and recounts their stories of survival. Amazon.co.uk Review As grippingly as any novelist, preeminent World War II historian Stephen Ambrose uses Band of Brothers to tell the horrifying, hallucinatory saga of Easy Company, whose 147 members he calls the non...(展开全部)

斯蒂芬·E．安布罗斯生于1936年，在威斯康星州怀特沃特长大。1960年，安布罗斯开始在新奥尔良大学任教，并着手撰写一本名为《责任、荣誉、国家》的西点军校史。他28岁时，艾森豪威尔总统请他为自己写传。 自那时以来，安布罗斯已经出版了二十多本书。其中的《D日——1944年6月6日》、《不屈不挠的意志》，《世上独一无二))被《纽约时报》列为畅销书。他担任过斯皮尔伯格的影片《拯救大兵瑞恩))的历史顾问，还参加了许多美国全国性电视节目的工作，包括由历史频道和国家地理频道制作的节目，并参与了HBO史诗性连续剧《兄弟连》的制作。 安布罗斯曾任位于新奥尔良的艾森豪威尔中心荣誉主任、《军事史学季刊》主笔、“美国河流”理事会成员、并且是“国家D日博物馆”的创建者。2002年10月13日因肺癌逝世，享年66岁。