[英]保罗·肯尼迪（Paul Kennedy，1945—），国际关系史和战略史巨擘，耶鲁大学迪尔沃思历史学教授，耶鲁大学国际安全研究项目主管，英国国家学术院院士，英国皇家历史学会会士，美国哲学学会会士，美国艺术与科学院院士，牛津大学博士，曾任英国皇家历史学会会长、普林斯顿高等研究院研究员、亚历山大·冯·洪堡基金会研究员。2000 年，他因在历史学领域的贡献被授予大英帝国司令勋章。2014 年，他因在海事历史研究领域的贡献，荣获了美国海军战争学院的哈滕多夫奖。 他的代表作《大国的兴衰》自1988年出版以来已被翻译成20多种语言，在全球产生了巨大影响。他的代表作还有《英国海上霸权的兴衰》《英德对抗的兴起，1860—1914》《战争与和平的大战略》《联合国：过去与未来》《二战解密：盟军如何扭转战局并赢得胜利》等。他目前还是众多学术期刊编辑委员会的成员，并为...(展开全部)

The Luftwaffe War Diaries is the definitive history of the German air force in World War II, from the blitzkrieg on Poland to the last desperate stand over Germanythe only account ever to come from a German source. Its masterfully organized chapters detail, summarize, and evaluate every important strategy and campaign. Cajus Bekker has drawn on official German archives and col...(展开全部)

The extraordinary story of the development of America's industrial muscle and the rise of big business during World War II For admirers of books by Erik Larson and Stephen Ambrose, here's a great, meaty, and untold story of World War II - how American big business set out to build the weapons and create the industrial muscle to arm the Allies and defeat the Axis, from the auth...(展开全部)

Freedom’s Forge reveals how two extraordinary American businessmen—General Motors automobile magnate William “Big Bill” Knudsen and shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser—helped corral, cajole, and inspire business leaders across the country to mobilize the “arsenal of democracy” that propelled the Allies to victory in World War II. Drafting top talent from companies like Chrysler, Repub...(展开全部)

From Iraq to Bosnia to North Korea, the first question in American foreign policy debates is increasingly: Can air power alone do the job? Robert A. Pape provides a systematic answer. Analyzing the results of over thirty air campaigns, including a detailed reconstruction of the Gulf War, he argues that the key to success is attacking the enemy's military strategy, not its econo...(展开全部)

From Iraq to Bosnia to North Korea, the first question in American foreign policy debates is increasingly: Can air power alone do the job? Robert A. Pape provides a systematic answer. Analyzing the results of over thirty air campaigns, including a detailed reconstruction of the Gulf War, he argues that the key to success is attacking the enemy's military strategy, not its econo...(展开全部)

This is a rich and broadranging account of the Asia-Pacific campaigns of WWII. Drawing on recently released documents in US and British archives, Douglas Ford explores why the belligerents in the Pacific war fought the way that they did. This book focuses not only on the battlefield level, but also provides a perspective from the military high command, government, and non-comba...(展开全部)

In the course of the 20th century, no war looms as profoundly transformative or as destructive as World War II. Its global scope and human toil reveal the true face of modern, industrialised warfare. Now, for the first time, we have a comprehensive, single-volume account of how and why this global conflict evolved as it did. This book is a history of the Second World War that t...(展开全部)

Now in paperback, War Without Mercy has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States." In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War -- race -- while writing what John Toland has called "a landmark book...a powerful, m...(展开全部)