As the only person to rise from entry-level analyst to Director of the CIA and to serve on the White House staffs of four Presidents, Robert Gates is uniquely qualified to tell the unprecedented inside story of the Cold War. Drawing on his access to classified information and top-level involvement in policy decisions, Gates lays bare the hidden wars and operations the United St...(展开全部)

罗伯特•M.盖茨 1943年出生。他被誉为“改变五角大楼的八朝元老”、冷战后美国军政界“活化石”、美国政坛“不倒翁”。1966年，他加入中情局，成为一名苏联问题分析师。1974-1979年，进入美国国家安全委员会工作，期间先后经历了尼克松、福特和卡特三位总统执政。1979年之后盖茨回到中情局，得到当时的局长凯西的提拔重用，历掌要职。1991年11月，老布什总统提名他接掌中情局，1993年1月，随着老布什总统任期结束，盖茨卸去中情局局长职务。卸任后，他曾在2002年担任德克萨斯农工大学校长。2006年，在伊拉克局势面临失控、阿富汗战争局势持续恶化等大背景下，盖茨受命于危难之中，出任国防部长。2008年，奥巴马当选美国总统后，盖茨继续留任执掌五角大楼，2011年离任，是美国历史上唯一任期跨越总统换届并同时跨越两党的元老。

The Battle of the Atlantic was the single most important - and longest - campaign of the Second World War. If Britain lost this vital supply route it lost the war. In Jonathan Dimbleby's brilliant and dramatic new account we see how this epic struggle for maritime mastery played out, from the politicians and admirals to the men on and under the sea and their families waiting at...(展开全部)

"Wonderful stories and in-depth information you will normally never find in books about trees." — Piet Oudolf, Landscape Designer and creator of the planting design for New York's High Line "Entwining fascinating facts about 100 trees with inspiring stories of their importance to ancient civilizations, trade, religious and pagan beliefs, wellbeing and medicinal uses over the ag...(展开全部)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “The best true spy story I have ever read.”—JOHN LE CARRÉ The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British doub...(展开全部)

作者简介 本·麦金泰尔（Ben Macintyre），历史学家，《泰晤士报》的专栏作家兼副主编，并且是该报在纽约、巴黎和华盛顿的通讯记者，曾被推选担任英国声望最高的纪实文学奖“塞缪尔·约翰逊奖”的评委会主席。其代表作有《代号“锯齿”》（Agent Zigzag）、《肉糜行动》（Operation Mincemeat）、《朋友圈内的间谍》（A Spy Among Friends ）和《痞子英雄》（Rogue Heroes ）等。他经常以自己广受好评的作品为基础为英国广播公司（BBC）制作电视剧。 译者简介 袁鑫，英语及历史爱好者，军事爱好者，英语专业八级，曾获韩素音青年翻译竞赛英译汉优秀奖，翻译校对数十万字相关文章，出版译著一部，现居北京。

作者简介 本·麦金泰尔（Ben Macintyre），历史学家，《泰晤士报》的专栏作家兼副主编，并且是该报在纽约、巴黎和华盛顿的通讯记者，曾被推选担任英国声望最高的纪实文学奖“塞缪尔·约翰逊奖”的评委会主席。其代表作有《代号“锯齿”》（Agent Zigzag）、《肉糜行动》（Operation Mincemeat）、《朋友圈内的间谍》（A Spy Among Friends ）和《痞子英雄》（Rogue Heroes ）等。他经常以自己广受好评的作品为基础为英国广播公司（BBC）制作电视剧。 译者简介 袁鑫，英语及历史爱好者，军事爱好者，英语专业八级，曾获韩素音青年翻译竞赛英译汉优秀奖，翻译校对数十万字相关文章，出版译著一部，现居北京。

What is it about a pair of shoes that so enchants women of all ages, demographics, political affiliations, and style tribes? Part social history, part fashion record, part pop-culture celebration, "Women from the Ankle Down" seeks to answer that question as it unfolds the story of shoes in the twentieth century. The tale begins in the rural village of Bonito, Italy, with a visi...(展开全部)

What is it about a pair of shoes that so enchants women of all ages, demographics, political affiliations, and style tribes? Part social history, part fashion record, part pop-culture celebration, Women from the Ankle Down seeks to answer that question as it unfolds the story of shoes in the twentieth century. The tale begins in the rural village of Bonito, Italy, with a vision...(展开全部)

Ten years in the research and writing, Presidents of War is a fresh, magisterial, intimate look at a procession of American leaders as they took the nation into conflict and mobilized their country for victory. It brings us into the room as they make the most difficult decisions that face any President, at times sending hundreds of thousands of American men and women to their d...(展开全部)