Winner of the Lionel Trilling Award Nominated for the National Book Award “A major contribution to our understanding of some of the great themes of modern European history—the relations between Jews and Germans, between economics and politics, between banking and diplomacy.” —James Joll, The New York Times Book Review “I cannot praise this book too highly. It is a work ...(展开全部)

Winner of the Lionel Trilling Award Nominated for the National Book Award “A major contribution to our understanding of some of the great themes of modern European history—the relations between Jews and Germans, between economics and politics, between banking and diplomacy.” —James Joll, The New York Times Book Review “I cannot praise this book too highly. It is a work ...(展开全部)

弗里茨•斯特恩（Fritz Stern，1926—2016），出生于德国的布雷斯劳（弗罗茨瓦夫，现属波兰），1938年移居美国。曾任哥伦比亚大学荣誉教授，在康奈尔大学、耶鲁大学、柏林自由大学和康斯坦茨大学任教，并于1993—1994年担任美国驻德国大使理查德·霍尔布鲁克（Richard Holbrooke）的高级顾问。专长为近现代欧洲史、德国史及犹太人史，致力于理解第三帝国如何兴起及其历史根源。着有《文化绝望的政治》《权力的责任》《非自由主义的失败——现代德国政治文化论文集》《爱因斯坦恩怨史》《我所认识的五个德国》《梦想与错觉：德国历史的戏剧》等。

埃里克·埃克（Erick Eyck（1878—1964），生于德国柏林，曾就读于柏林大学和弗莱堡大学，以法律记者、议员的身份在上诉法院从事法律工作。1937年为躲避纳粹迫害，他移居英国，在伦敦大学和牛津大学讲学，并开始反思德意志民族崛起之路。埃克博士论著宏富，著有《魏玛共和国史》（商务印书馆，1994）、《俾斯麦研究》等论著。《俾斯麦与德意志帝国》是他以牛津大学的课堂讲义为基础写成的总结性专著，是公认的经典之作。

The period of almost half a century from 1871 to 1919 was one of huge upheaval, restlessness and change in Germany. Situated at the crossroads of history and geography, the country under Bismarck was struggling to preserve the predominance of Prussia and its traditional ruling elites, whilst also recognising the importance of modernisation. By the turn of the century Germany ha...(展开全部)

The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of a transport revolution that would forever transform the way we live. Blood, Iron, and Gold takes us on a journey encompassing jungle, mountain, and desert, revealing the huge impact of the railroads as they spread rapidly across entire countries, and linked cities that hitherto had little reac...(展开全部)

From Panama to the Punjab, Tasmania to Turin, Blood, Iron and Gold describes the vision and determination of the pioneers who developed railways that would link cities that had hitherto been isolated, and would one day span continents. Christian Wolmar reveals how the rise of the train stimulating daring feats of engineering, architectural innovation and the rapid movement of p...(展开全部)

“I have found it.” These words, uttered by the man who first discovered gold on the American River in 1848, triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. California’s gold drew fortune-seekers from the ends of the earth. It accelerated America’s imperial expansion and exacerbated the tensions that exploded in the Civil War. And, as H. W. Brands mak...(展开全部)

H.W.布兰兹（H.W. Brands） 现任美国得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校历史系主任，并荣获该校“杰克·S.老布兰顿”主任头衔。他是《纽约时报》的畅销书作家，所著的富兰克林传记和小罗斯福传记入围普利策奖候选名单。

John Patrick Douglas Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross (1904–1976) was a Scottish historian and writer noted for his biography of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and other works on Islamic history. He was educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. He then became a journalist and writer.