The biography of a White Russian emigree trapped with her family in Hitler's Germany at the outbreak of World War II. Living among the ruins of Berlin during Allied bombing raids, she grew up to be a strong-minded, committed and courageous woman.

安东尼·比弗，英国历史学家、历史题材畅销书作者。在温切斯特和桑德赫斯特接受了军事教育，并曾作为一名后备军官，随军在德国和英国服役。结束军旅生涯后，他先写小说，后改写战争纪实，大概他发现，现实生活特别是战争时期生活的戏剧性总是超出人的想象力。比弗的绝大部分著作由企鹅出版社出版。其中： 《西班牙内战》和《克里特：战斗和抵抗》获得伦西曼奖； 《保卫斯大林格勒》以其真实的细节和曲折的叙事，获得约翰逊散文文学奖、沃尔夫森历史史实故事奖和霍桑顿文学奖，已被翻译成二十几种语言； 《攻克柏林》获得第一届今日朗文历史理事奖。同样已被翻译成二十几种语言。 比弗曾荣获法国政府颁发的文学艺术骑士勋章，被肯特大学授予荣誉博士学位，他还是伦敦大学贝克特学院历史学、古典文学和考古学的访问学者。

安东尼·比弗，英国历史学家、历史题材畅销书作者。在温切斯特和桑德赫斯特接受了军事教育，并曾作为一名后备军官，随军在德国和英国服役。结束军旅生涯后，他先写小说，后改写战争纪实，大概他发现，现实生活特别是战争时期生活的戏剧性总是超出人的想象力。比弗的绝大部分著作由企鹅出版社出版。其中： 《西班牙内战》和《克里特：战斗和抵抗》获得伦西曼奖； 《保卫斯大林格勒》以其真实的细节和曲折的叙事，获得约翰逊散文文学奖、沃尔夫森历史史实故事奖和霍桑顿文学奖，已被翻译成二十几种语言； 《攻克柏林》获得第一届今日朗文历史理事奖。同样已被翻译成二十几种语言。 比弗曾荣获法国政府颁发的文学艺术骑士勋章，被肯特大学授予荣誉博士学位，他还是伦敦大学贝克特学院历史学、古典文学和考古学的访问学者。

艾伦•弗朗西斯•布鲁克（Alan Francis Brooke，1883-1963），英国陆军元帅、大英帝国总参谋长，他主导了二战时期英国的绝大多数重大战争决策，出席了战时同盟国召开的一系列重要国际会议，对赢得战争胜利做出了重大贡献。

James MacGregor Burns (1918-2014) was a bestselling American historian and political scientist whose work has earned both the National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. Born in Boston, he earned his BA at Williams College, where he returned to teach history and political science after obtaining his PhD at Harvard and serving in World War II. He served as the Woodrow Wilson Profe...(展开全部)

Already celebrated as the most important war diaries yet to appear, Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke's War Diaries 1939-1945, edited by Alex Danchev and Dan Todman, are full of fascinating and controversial stuff. But Alanbrooke's style should not be confused with that of Alan Clark: he does not set out to be controversial for controversy's own sake and there is little gossip or s...(展开全部)

Alanbrooke was CIGS - Chief of the Imperial General Staff - for the greater part of the Second World War. He acted as mentor to Montgomery and military adviser to Churchill, with whom he clashed. As chairman of the Chiefs of Staff committee he also led for the British side in the bargaining and the brokering of the Grand Alliance, notably during the great conferences with Roos...(展开全部)