In the aftermath of the Battle of Britain, airmen filled a small town where pioneering plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe established revolutionary surgical and therapeutic treatments. For the child Liz Byrski, growing up in East Grinstead, the burnt faces of these airmen filled her nightmares. In her late 60s, Liz returned to make peace with her memories and to speak not only w...(展开全部)

One climbed to the very top of the social ladder, the other chose to live among tramps. One was a celebrity at twenty-three, the other virtually unknown until his dying days. One was right-wing and religious, the other a socialist and an atheist. Yet, as this ingenious and important new book reveals, at the heart of their lives and writing, Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell were e...(展开全部)

A spellbinding story of love amid the devastation of the Spanish Civil War Madrid, 1936. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe—a conflict one writer will call "the decisive thing of the century"—six people meet and find their lives changed forever. Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his marriage sour, hopes that this war will gi...(展开全部)

－作者－ 爱德华多·加莱亚诺（1940-2015），乌拉圭文学大师。生于蒙得维的亚，14岁时发表政治漫画，20岁起先后担任过记者、编辑、主编，23岁来到中国采访末代皇帝溥仪。曾被军政府逮捕入狱，后长期流亡。1985年才回到祖国。因其犀利透彻、充满良知的写作，被誉为“拉丁 美洲的声音”。2009年美洲峰会上，委内瑞拉前总统查韦斯将加莱亚诺代表作《拉丁美洲被切开的血管》送给时任美国总统的奥巴马，引发全世界媒体关注。2015年4月13日，加莱亚诺因病去世，乌拉圭举国哀悼。他的作品《拉丁美洲被切开的血管》《足球往事：那些阳光与阴影下的美丽》等，在中国读者当中曾产生过广泛影响。 －译者－ 汪天艾，西班牙语诗歌译者、研究者。供职于中国社会科学院外国文学研究所，任《世界文学》编辑。北京大学西班牙语语言文学学士，伦敦大学国王学院比较文学硕士，马德里自治大学西班牙文学...(展开全部)

－作者－ 爱德华多·加莱亚诺（1940-2015），乌拉圭文学大师。生于蒙得维的亚，14岁时发表政治漫画，20岁起先后担任过记者、编辑、主编，23岁来到中国采访末代皇帝溥仪。曾被军政府逮捕入狱，后长期流亡。1985年才回到祖国。因其犀利透彻、充满良知的写作，被誉为“拉丁 美洲的声音”。2009年美洲峰会上，委内瑞拉前总统查韦斯将加莱亚诺代表作《拉丁美洲被切开的血管》送给时任美国总统的奥巴马，引发全世界媒体关注。2015年4月13日，加莱亚诺因病去世，乌拉圭举国哀悼。他的作品《拉丁美洲被切开的血管》《足球往事：那些阳光与阴影下的美丽》等，在中国读者当中曾产生过广泛影响。 －译者－ 汪天艾，西班牙语诗歌译者、研究者。供职于中国社会科学院外国文学研究所，任《世界文学》编辑。北京大学西班牙语语言文学学士，伦敦大学国王学院比较文学硕士，马德里自治大学西班牙文学...(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)

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)

Bernard Wasserstein has uncovered startling evidence from the archives of the intelligence agencies of several countries that relates the remarkable and murky history of Shanghai''s political netherworld during the 1930s and 40s.'

Approaching its demise, the Ming imperial administration enlisted members of the Cheng family as mercenaries to help in the defense of the coastal waters of Fukien. Under the leadership of Cheng Chih-lung, also known as Nicolas Iquan, and with the help of the local gentry, these mercenaries became the backbone of the empire’s maritime defense and the protectors of Chinese comme...(展开全部)

In his follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Metaphysical Club, Louis Menand offers a new intellectual and cultural history of the postwar years The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense—economic and political, artistic and personal. In The Free World, the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize–winning scholar and critic Louis Menand t...(展开全部)