尼古拉斯•贝斯特（Nicholas Best）在英国和都柏林的圣三一学院接受教育。他曾在英国近卫步兵第一团服役，后在伦敦当记者。他为英国《金融时报》担任小说评论员长达十年时间，并著有讲述第一次世界大战结束时的故事的《历史上最伟大的一天》。

英媒：二战背景下引人关注的人物故事 2012年03月26日 12:24:22 来源： 新华网 上周出版的《震惊世界的五天》为英国—爱尔兰混血作家尼古拉斯·贝斯特所著，它从1945年4月28日上午开始讲起：意大利游击队员叫醒贝尼托·墨索里尼，然后用车把他及其情妇克拉拉·佩塔奇带到科莫湖边枪决。全书以1945年5月2日结束，随着希特勒在地堡中自杀的消息传遍全世界，柏林最后的守卫者缴械投降。英媒称，一本新书透过二战高潮时期的数十个人物的故事，从一个吸引人的角度让人们对这场冲突有了全新的了解。 据英国《泰晤士报》报道，《震惊世界的五天》以重大事件为背景，像拍快照一样介绍了一些重要人物当时身在何处，在做些什么。 在那不勒斯，10岁的索菲娅·罗兰与母亲和妹妹生活在极度贫困之中，她的一边脸颊在空袭中为弹片所伤。一个年轻的美国大兵与这家人成了朋友。他在日记中写道...(展开全部)

迈克.内伯格，美国陆军战争学院历史系教授，国家安全与战略研究协会首任主席。从事现代军事史、战争与社会、美国史、世界文明等方面的教学和研究。 出版过多部关于两次世界大战的著作，尤其是关于英、美、苏等大国博弈的专著。代表作有《自由人之血：1944年的巴黎解放》《复仇之舞：欧洲和第一次世界大战的爆发》《战争之路：一战如何创造了现代美国》等，多次获得军事史和历史学方面的奖项。

Deep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no money, no taxation, no marriage, no census. Canudos is a cauldron for the revolutionary spirit in its purest form, a state with al...(展开全部)

Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbors are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road. One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is yo...(展开全部)

A dramatic countdown of the final months of World War II in Europe, The Last 100 Days brings to life the waning power and the ultimate submission of the Third Reich. To reconstruct the tumultuous hundred days between Yalta and the fall of Berlin, John Toland traveled more than 100,000 miles in twenty-one countries and interviewed more than six hundred people—from Hitler’s perso...(展开全部)

Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War Two, By Keith Lowe Brendan Simms In his memoir If This is a Man, the Italian writer Primo Levi recalls that the most terrifying time for him at Auschwitz was not the years of incarceration by the Nazis, when beatings, hunger, back-breaking work and the threat of murder were omnipresent. He came closest to despair during the...(展开全部)

The Second World War might have officially ended in May 1945, but in reality it rumbled on for another 10 years ...Across Europe, landscapes had been ravaged, entire cities razed and more than 35 million people had been killed in the war. The institutions that we now take for granted - such as the police, the media, transport, local and national government - were either entirel...(展开全部)

Imagine a world without institutions. It is a world where borders between countries seem to have dissolved, leaving a single, endless landsc ape over which people travel in search of communities that no longer exist. There are no governments any more, neither on a national scale nor even on a local one. There are no schools or universities, no libraries or archives, no access t...(展开全部)

Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of World War Two, By Keith Lowe Brendan Simms In his memoir If This is a Man, the Italian writer Primo Levi recalls that the most terrifying time for him at Auschwitz was not the years of incarceration by the Nazis, when beatings, hunger, back-breaking work and the threat of murder were omnipresent. He came closest to despair during the...(展开全部)