塞巴斯蒂安•哈夫纳（Sebastian Haffner），1907年生于柏林，逝于1999年，被公认为20世纪德国历史最重要的时代见证者之一。1938年移居英国担任记者，1954年以英国《观察家报》海外特派员的身份重返德国后，自1961年起先后为德国《世界报》《明星周刊》撰写政论专栏。哈夫纳著有一系列以历史为主题的畅销书，其中包括《解读希特勒》《从俾斯麦到希特勒》《不含传说的普鲁士》《一个德国人的故事：哈夫纳回忆录，1914—1933》等。

塞巴斯蒂安•哈夫纳（Sebastian Haffner），1907年生于柏林，逝于1999年，被公认为20世纪德国历史最重要的时代见证者之一。1938年移居英国担任记者，1954年以英国《观察家报》海外特派员的身份重返德国后，自1961年起先后为德国《世界报》《明星周刊》撰写政论专栏。哈夫纳著有一系列以历史为主题的畅销书，其中包括《解读希特勒》《从俾斯麦到希特勒》《不含传说的普鲁士》《一个德国人的故事：哈夫纳回忆录，1914—1933》等。

Kershaw's writing is masterly, and the individual works making up the biography, _Hubris_ and _Nemesis_, each deserve five stars. My three-star rating is aimed specifically at this one-volume edition: neither the jacket copy nor Amazon's description makes it clear that this is an abridgement, omitting ~650 pages from the original volumes and dropping all the endnotes. If you wa...(展开全部)

“Magisterial . . . anyone who wishes to understand the Third Reich must read Kershaw.”—Niall Ferguson “The Hitler biography of the twenty-first century” (Richard J. Evans), Ian Kershaw’s Hitler is a one-volume masterpiece that will become the standard work. From Hitler’s origins as a failed artist in fin-de-siècle Vienna to the terrifying last days in his Berlin bunker, Kers...(展开全部)

From one of the most prominent biographers of the Nazi period, a new and provocative portrait of the figure behind the century's worst crimes Acclaimed historian Peter Longerich, author of Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler now turns his attention to Adolf Hitler in this new biography. While many previous portraits have speculated about Hitler's formative years, Longerich focuses on...(展开全部)

Kershaw's writing is masterly, and the individual works making up the biography, _Hubris_ and _Nemesis_, each deserve five stars. My three-star rating is aimed specifically at this one-volume edition: neither the jacket copy nor Amazon's description makes it clear that this is an abridgement, omitting ~650 pages from the original volumes and dropping all the endnotes. If you wa...(展开全部)

When he was a student in Paris, Truong Nhu Tang met Ho Chi Minh. Later he fought in the Vietnamese jungle and emerged as one of the major figures in the "fight for liberation" -- and one of the most determined adversaries of the United States. He became the Vietcong's Minister of Justice, but at the end of the war he fled the country in disillusionment and despair. He now lives...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit, and its profound humanity. It won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. And now we have 'Tis, the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigra...(展开全部)

Frank McCourt's glorious childhood memoir, Angela's Ashes, has been loved and celebrated by readers everywhere for its spirit, its wit and its profound humanity. A tale of redemption, in which storytelling itself is the source of salvation, it won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. Rarely has a book so swiftly found ...(展开全部)

Already an international literary sensation, an intimate and powerful memoir of a young French teenage girl's relationship with a famous, much older male writer—a universal #MeToo story of power, manipulation, trauma, recovery, and resiliency that exposes the hypocrisy of a culture that has allowed the sexual abuse of minors to occur unchecked. Sometimes, all it takes is a sing...(展开全部)