Building a Nation at War argues that the Chinese Nationalist government’s retreat inland during the Sino–Japanese War (1937–1945), its consequent need for inland resources, and its participation in new scientific and technical relationships with the United States led to fundamental changes in how the Nationalists engaged with science and technology as tools to promote developme...(展开全部)

◎作者简介 保罗·贝茨（Paul Betts），牛津大学圣安东尼学院现代欧洲史教授，长期从事现代欧洲文化史，特别是20世纪德国史研究，曾任英国德国历史学会主席、牛津大学圣安东尼学院欧洲研究中心主任等职。代表作有《墙内：德意志民主共和国的私人生活》（Within Walls: Private Life in the German Democratic Republic，获维纳图书馆当代史奖）、《毁灭与重生：二战后欧洲文明的重建》（Ruin and Renewal：Civilising Europe After the Second World War，获2021年美国哲学学会雅克·巴赞文化史奖）。 译者： 陈超，青年译者，毕业于中山大学，主要译著有：《奥威尔作品全集》《我们》《美丽新世界》《帝国之秋》《在路上》《海洋之星》《影子游戏》等。

In 1945, Europe lay in ruins - its cities and towns destroyed by conflict, its economies crippled, its societies ripped apart by war and violence. In the years that followed, Europeans tried to make sense of what had happened - and to forge a new understanding of civilisation that would bring peace and progress to a broken continent. As they wrestled with questions great and sm...(展开全部)

The Tango War by Mary Jo McConahay fills an important gap in WWII history. Beginning in the thirties, both sides were well aware of the need to control not just the hearts and minds but also the resources of Latin America. The fight was often dirty: residents were captured to exchange for U.S. prisoners of war and rival spy networks shadowed each other across the continent. At ...(展开全部)

Merchants of War and Peace challenges conventional arguments that the major driving forces of the First Opium War were the infamous opium smuggling trade, the defence of British national honour, and cultural conflicts between ‘progressive’ Britain and ‘backward’ China. Instead, it argues that the war was started by a group of British merchants in the Chinese port of Canton in t...(展开全部)

Based on newly accessible Turkish archival documents, Onur Isci's study details the deterioration of diplomatic relations between Turkey and the Soviet Union during World War II. Turkish-Russian relations have a long history of conflict. Under Ataturk relations improved – he was a master 'balancer' of the great powers. During the Second World War, however, relations between Tur...(展开全部)