The British Army’s considerable contribution to The Korean War 1950 – 1953 was largely composed of ‘conscripts’ or national servicemen. Plucked from civilian life on a ‘lottery’ basis and given a short basic training, some like Jim Jacobs volunteered for overseas duty and suddenly found themselves in the thick of a war as intensive and dangerous as anything the Second World War...(展开全部)

In December 1950 General Matthew B. Ridgway replaced General Walton Walker as commander of the Eighth Army, and in April 1951 he succeeded Douglas MacArthur as supreme commander of the United Nations forces in Korea and supreme commander of the United States Far East Command. In this spirited book, General Ridgway describes how he took a dispirited army and rebuilt it in a few ...(展开全部)

本书是近年颇富新意和好评的冷战史著作。 作者大量利用了苏联解体后解密的机密录音，文件等新资料，尝试从苏联领导人的角度，审视，解读冷战的形成，激化，僵持和结局。作者发现，尽管国防安全和苏联的国家利益是斯大林及其后继者主要的政策目标，但苏联的冷战政策深受其意识形态及国内政治需要的左右。 不同于传统英文学界的主流观点，作者认为美国的在五十年代和八十年代采取的”遏制战略“加剧了苏联一方的好战性。而戈尔巴乔夫的错误判断和失误决策，则是导致苏联解体的主要原因。

Western interpretations of the Cold War--both realist and neoconservative--have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlin's pragmatism or its aggressiveness, argues Vladislav Zubok. Explaining the interests, aspirations, illusions, fears, and misperceptions of the Kremlin leaders and Soviet elites, Zubok offers a Soviet perspective on the greatest standoff of the twentieth centu...(展开全部)

David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book for the Vietnam War. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivalled research and formidable journalistic skills to shed light on another dark corner in our history: the Korean War. The Coldest Winter is a successor to The Best and the Brightest, even though in historical...(展开全部)

《最寒冷的冬天:美国人眼中的朝鲜战争》首度全面揭秘朝鲜战争的真相：硝烟弥漫的20世纪，为什么唯独朝鲜战争让美国人不忍言说却又无法遗忘？这次不再是欲言又止，而是一次全面的检讨。金日成“想用刺刀碰一碰南方的土地”，差点点燃“第三次世界大战”的战火；李承晚军的不堪一击，迫使美国打着联合国的旗号赤裸上阵；斯大林按兵不动背后的战略意图，让毛泽东面临是否派兵入朝的艰难抉择。大卫•哈伯斯塔姆酝酿40多年，耗时10余春秋，完成其生命最后之作——《最寒冷的冬天(美国人眼中的朝鲜战争)》。为创作《最寒冷的冬天(美国人眼中的朝鲜战争)》，他走访了诸多知名图书馆和研究机构，从浩如烟海的资料中探寻历史的隐秘；他访问了100多位散布美国各个角落的朝鲜战争幸存老兵，在无法承受的生命之重中聆听人性的呼唤。朝鲜战争对参战各方来说都是很残酷的。哈伯斯塔姆为我们描绘和剖析了二战后这场“为...(展开全部)

An utterly original and illuminating work that meets at the crossroads of autobiography and ethnography to re-examine violence and memory through the eyes of a child. Seeing Like a Child is a deeply moving narrative that showcases an unexpected voice from an established researcher. Through an unwavering commitment to a child’s perspective, Clara Han explores how the catastrophi...(展开全部)

亨利•克伦普顿（Henry A. Crumpton） 1981年就加入中情局，曾任中情局秘密行动处行动官长达24年，然后出任美国反恐协调官，享受无任所大使级别待遇。曾获得中情局最高荣誉——杰出情报勋章。他现在是全球商业咨询公司克伦普顿集团有限责任公司董事长兼首席执行官。

A legendary CIA spy and counterterrorism expert tells the spellbinding story of his high-risk, action-packed career while illustrating the growing importance of America's intelligence officers and their secret missions For a crucial period, Henry Crumpton led the CIA's global covert operations against America's terrorist enemies, including al Qaeda. In the days after 9/11, the ...(展开全部)

Exploring the reasons why Mao Tse-tung decided to assist North Korea in fighting a coalition of Western powers, this study argues that China's entry into the Korean War was brought about by its fears of Cold War alliances and its move to develop Chinese communism abroad.