The complete text of the bestselling narrative history of the Civil War--based on the celebrated PBS television series. This non-illustrated edition interweaves the author's narrative with the voices of the men and women who lived through that cataclysmic trail of our nationhood, from Abraham Lincoln to ordinary foot soldiers. Includes essays by distinguished historians of the ...(展开全部)

The complete text of the bestselling narrative history of the Civil War--based on the celebrated PBS television series. This non-illustrated edition interweaves the author's narrative with the voices of the men and women who lived through that cataclysmic trail of our nationhood, from Abraham Lincoln to ordinary foot soldiers. Includes essays by distinguished historians of the ...(展开全部)

This book presents a new history of the most important conflict in European affairs during the 1930s, the Spanish Civil War. It describes the complex origins of the conflict, the collapse of the Spanish Republic and the outbreak of the only mass worker revolution in the history of Western Europe. Stanley Payne explains the character of the Spanish revolution and the complex web...(展开全部)

斯坦利·佩恩 Stanley G.Payne，西班牙现代史、法西斯研究权威学者，曾在哥伦比亚大学、加州大学洛杉矶分校和威斯康星大学等多所大学执教。他是美国艺术与科学学院院士、西班牙皇家历史学院马德里分院院士，曾于2005年获得美国斯拉夫研究促进协会的马歇尔舒尔曼图书奖（Marshall Shul man Book Award），2009年获得西班牙政府颁发的天主教伊莎贝拉大十字勋章。自1999年起，他担任《当代史》（Journal of Contemporary History）的联合主编。佩恩教授已有20余本著作和150篇文章问世，最近的出版的著作包括《西班牙共和国的崩溃，1933—1936：内战的缘起》（The Collapse of the Spanish Republic, 1933-1936: Origins of the Civil Wa...(展开全部)

In St. Petersburg on October 25, 1917, the A commanding chronicle of the three Bolshevik Party stormed the capital city and turbulent years that brought the ironfisted seized the power over the Russian Provisional Soviet regime to political power. Government, which had been operating ineffectively since the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II eight months before. That October Revolu...(展开全部)

埃里克•方纳，哥伦比亚大学德威特•克林顿历史学讲席教授，当代美国最有影响力的历史学家之一。在美国内战与重建史、非裔美国人史、美国政治文化与思想史等领域成就斐然，出版了近30部著作，其中多部以史料扎实、思想深刻而成为美国史研究的经典著作。其重要著作包括：《重建：美利坚未完成的革命（1863—1877）》（1988，获班克罗夫特奖等6项学术奖）、《烈火中的考验：亚伯拉罕•林肯与美国奴隶制》（2010，获普利策奖、林肯奖和班克罗夫特奖等7项学术奖）。方纳是美国艺术与科学院院士和英国皇家科学院通讯院士，曾担任美国历史学家组织主席和美国历史学会主席，并在多所世界著名大学担任美国史讲座教授，荣获哥伦比亚大学“伟大教师”的称号。 于留振，北京大学历史学博士，美国哥伦比亚大学中美富布赖特访问学者，现为陕西师范大学历史文化学院副教授。主要研究领域为19世纪美国史、美国...(展开全部)

The Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three constitutional amendments to establish that ideal as American law. The Reconstruction amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed due process and the equal protection of the law, and equipped black men with the right to vote. The federal governmen...(展开全部)

In six volumes: 1. The Gathering Storm (1948) 2. Their Finest Hour (1949) 3. The Grand Alliance (1950) 4. The Hinge of Fate (1950) 5. Closing the Ring (1951) 6. Triumph and Tragedy (1953)

Praised as “the best military historian of our generation” by Tom Clancy, John Keegan here reconsiders his masterful study of World War II, The Second World War, with a new foreword. Keegan examines each theater of the war, focusing on five crucial battles and offering new insights into the distinctive methods and motivations of modern warfare. In eloquent, perceptive analyses ...(展开全部)

In this history of World War II, the author explores both the technical and the human impact of the conflict. The text concentrates on five crucial battles with the aim of illuminating the war as a whole: Crete, Midway, Falaise, Berlin and Okinawa.