Shaun O’Dwyer is a professor in the Faculty of Languages and Cultures at Kyushu University, Japan. His research focuses on philosophy and the history of ideas.

From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives—an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the ...(展开全部)

From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives—an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the ...(展开全部)

理查德·奥弗里（Richard Overy，1947—），国际知名战争史专家，英国国家学术院院士，欧洲科学与艺术学院院士，英国皇家历史学会会员，埃克塞特大学教授，剑桥大学博士后，曾任教于剑桥大学女王学院和伦敦国王学院。2001年，由于在战争史研究领域的贡献，他被美国军事史学会授予塞缪尔·艾略特·莫里森奖。他的主要研究方向是第二次世界大战史和20世纪世界史。 奥弗里著述颇丰，已出版20多部作品。其中，《独裁者们》荣获沃尔夫森历史奖和赫塞尔-蒂尔特曼历史奖，《轰炸战》入围坎迪尔历史奖决选名单。他的作品《二战图文史：战争历程完整实录》《二战爆发前十天》《第三帝国图文史：纳粹德国浮沉实录》已被引进国内。他还是《泰晤士世界历史》、《牛津二战史》和《〈纽约时报〉二战全纪实》这三部重磅作品的主编，这三部作品也已被引进国内。他的其他作品还有《盟国为何胜利》《俄国的战...(展开全部)

A thought-provoking and original reassessment of World War II, from Britain’s leading military historian Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. As one of Britain’s most decorated and respected World War II historians, he argues that this was the “last imperial war,” with almost a century-...(展开全部)

Richard Overy sets out in Blood and Ruins to recast the way in which we view the Second World War and its origins and aftermath. He argues that this was the 'great imperial war', a violent end to almost a century of global imperial expansion which reached its peak in the ambitions of Italy, Germany and Japan in the 1930s and early 1940s, before descending into the largest and c...(展开全部)

The book focuses on the history of Zen Buddhism and Japanese militarism from the time of the Meiji Restoration through the Second World War and the post-War period. It describes the influence of state policy on Japanese Buddhism, and particularly the influence of Zen philosophy on the Japanese military. A famous quote is from Harada Daiun Sogaku: [If ordered to] march: tramp, t...(展开全部)

Nations at War provides an explanation of war in international politics grounded on data-based, empirical research. The book classifies and synthesizes the research findings of over 500 quantitative analyses of war at the analytic level of the state, dyad, region, and international system. Because wars follow from political decisions, two basic decision-making models - the rati...(展开全部)