The setting is Kiev in 1918, a time of revolution, turmoil and civil war. The Germans have occupied the city, Petlyura's Socialists are camped outside awaiting their moment, while the Bolsheviks watch, contemplating their buried armaments. It is a time of suspense and anguished uncertainty for everyone, including the once-wealthy Turbin family, who, like the other last supporte...(展开全部)

“Great and terrible was the year of Our Lord 1918, of the Revolution the second.” It is 1918: the Russian Revolution has just ended, Ukraine is in the midst of civil war, and in Kiev, the two Turbin brothers are preparing to fight for the White Guard in the wake of their beloved mother’s death. Friends charge in from the streets amid an atmosphere of heady chaos, downing vodka,...(展开全部)

Discover Mikhail Bugakov's classic literary love letter to the city of Kyiv. Drawing closely on Bulgakov's personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor, The White Guard takes place in Kyiv, 1918, a time of turmoil and suffocating uncertainty as the Bolsheviks, Socialists and Germans fight for control of the city. It tells the story of the Turbins, a once-w...(展开全部)

"White Guard", Mikhail Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical first novel, revolves around a Russian family in their home city of Kiev in 1918. Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin, adult siblings who have just lost their mother, find themselves plunged into the chaotic civil war that erupted in the wake of World War I and the Russian Revolution. In the context of this family's saga, Bu...(展开全部)

From antiquity to the nineteenth century, the royal hunt was a vital component of the political cultures of the Middle East, India, Central Asia, and China. Besides marking elite status, royal hunts functioned as inspection tours and imperial progresses, a means of asserting kingly authority over the countryside. The hunt was, in fact, the "court out-of-doors," an open-air thea...(展开全部)

猩红之月的在现，帝国的重生，奇怪现象的频发。 身为高中生到霍柏宁深入其中，看霍柏宁如何处理。 天使，吸血鬼，世间的敌还是友。

Young Fitz, the illegitimate son of the noble Prince Chivalry, is ignored by all royalty except the devious King Shrewd, who has had him tutored him in the dark arts of the assassin. He has barely survived his first, soul-shattering mission, and returns to the court where he is thrown headfirst into the tumult of royal life. With the King near death, and Fitz's only ally off on...(展开全部)

"Brilliant Artwork in a Story that is Familiar but not Predictable." - COMIC SPECTRUM "If Game of Thrones is your thing, you’ll love Royal Blood" - COMIC TRASH "Jodorowsky shows the parts of humanity we loathe. It also happens to be the parts that are really entertaining in fiction." - The Frog Queen "If you can find another book out there that looks as beautiful as this, then ...(展开全部)

猩红之月的在现，帝国的重生，奇怪现象的频发。 身为高中生到霍柏宁深入其中，看霍柏宁如何处理。 天使，吸血鬼，世间的敌还是友。

作者简介 约翰·理查德·希尔（1929—2017），英国海军少将。从1946年开始在英国海军服役，1946—1947年在英海军“中国舰队”任中尉，曾在英国国防部、皇家国防研究学院、伦敦国王学院等机构工作，1983年退役。他在海军实操和理论研究领域均有丰富经验，退役后主要从事海军史、军事史相关写作研究。有多部关于海上战争、战略和军备控制的著作，并在世界各地发表相关演讲，此外还担任过《海军评论》杂志的编辑和航海研究学会的主席。2000年因对海军史研究作出杰出贡献而获巴顿山海事奖，是该奖的首个获奖者。 译者简介 侯美，国防大学国家安全学院讲师，《军事历史研究》编辑，研究方向为外国军事思想与外国军事历史。