Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in December 2001, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan spoke to a world still reeling from the terrorist attacks of September 11. “Ladies and Gentlemen,” proclaimed Annan, “we have entered the third millennium through a gate of fire. If today, after the horror of 11 September, we see better, and we see further—we will realize that humanity...(展开全部)

小熊英二（Eiji Okuma） 1962年生於東京，東京大學大學院總和文化研究科國際社會科學博士，現為慶應義塾大學總合政策學部教授，專攻歷史社會學・相關社會科學。1996年以《単一民族神話の起源：〈日本人〉の自画像の系譜》獲得三得利學藝賞；2003年以《「民主」と「愛国」：戦後日本のナショナリズムと公共性》獲得每日出版文化賞、大佛次郎論壇賞；2013年以《社会を変えるには》獲得中央公論社新書大賞。最新著作《活著回來的男人：一個普通日本兵的二戰及戰後生命史》獲得2015年新潮社小林秀雄賞。其他重要著作包括《1968：若者たちの叛乱とその背景〈上／下〉》、《市民と武装 ：アメリカ合衆国における戦争と銃規制》、《清水幾太郎：ある戦後知識人の軌跡》。他執導的311福島核災議題紀錄片《首相官邸前的人們》已於2015年公開上映。

小熊英二（Eiji Okuma） 1962年生於東京，東京大學大學院總和文化研究科國際社會科學博士，現為慶應義塾大學總合政策學部教授，專攻歷史社會學・相關社會科學。1996年以《単一民族神話の起源：〈日本人〉の自画像の系譜》獲得三得利學藝賞；2003年以《「民主」と「愛国」：戦後日本のナショナリズムと公共性》獲得每日出版文化賞、大佛次郎論壇賞；2013年以《社会を変えるには》獲得中央公論社新書大賞。最新著作《活著回來的男人：一個普通日本兵的二戰及戰後生命史》獲得2015年新潮社小林秀雄賞。其他重要著作包括《1968：若者たちの叛乱とその背景〈上／下〉》、《市民と武装 ：アメリカ合衆国における戦争と銃規制》、《清水幾太郎：ある戦後知識人の軌跡》。他執導的311福島核災議題紀錄片《首相官邸前的人們》已於2015年公開上映。

Translated by Louise & Aylmer Maude With an Introduction and notes by Henry and Olga Claridge, University of Kent at Canterbury. War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters. Three of th...(展开全部)

Published to coincide with the centenary of Tolstoy's death, here is an exciting new edition of one of the great literary works of world literature. Tolstoy's epic masterpiece captures with unprecedented immediacy the broad sweep of life during the Napoleonic wars and the brutal invasion of Russia. Balls and soirées, the burning of Moscow, the intrigues of statesmen and general...(展开全部)

Translated by Louise & Aylmer Maude With an Introduction and notes by Henry and Olga Claridge, University of Kent at Canterbury. War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters. Three of th...(展开全部)

Published to coincide with the centenary of Tolstoy's death, here is an exciting new edition of one of the great literary works of world literature. Tolstoy's epic masterpiece captures with unprecedented immediacy the broad sweep of life during the Napoleonic wars and the brutal invasion of Russia. Balls and soirées, the burning of Moscow, the intrigues of statesmen and general...(展开全部)

From Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, the best-selling, award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov, comes a brilliant, engaging, and eminently readable translation of Leo Tolstoy’s master epic. War and Peace centers broadly on Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the best-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezuk...(展开全部)