In December 1950 General Matthew B. Ridgway replaced General Walton Walker as commander of the Eighth Army, and in April 1951 he succeeded Douglas MacArthur as supreme commander of the United Nations forces in Korea and supreme commander of the United States Far East Command. In this spirited book, General Ridgway describes how he took a dispirited army and rebuilt it in a few ...(展开全部)

David Halberstam's magisterial and thrilling The Best and the Brightest was the defining book for the Vietnam War. More than three decades later, Halberstam used his unrivalled research and formidable journalistic skills to shed light on another dark corner in our history: the Korean War. The Coldest Winter is a successor to The Best and the Brightest, even though in historical...(展开全部)

《最寒冷的冬天:美国人眼中的朝鲜战争》首度全面揭秘朝鲜战争的真相：硝烟弥漫的20世纪，为什么唯独朝鲜战争让美国人不忍言说却又无法遗忘？这次不再是欲言又止，而是一次全面的检讨。金日成“想用刺刀碰一碰南方的土地”，差点点燃“第三次世界大战”的战火；李承晚军的不堪一击，迫使美国打着联合国的旗号赤裸上阵；斯大林按兵不动背后的战略意图，让毛泽东面临是否派兵入朝的艰难抉择。大卫•哈伯斯塔姆酝酿40多年，耗时10余春秋，完成其生命最后之作——《最寒冷的冬天(美国人眼中的朝鲜战争)》。为创作《最寒冷的冬天(美国人眼中的朝鲜战争)》，他走访了诸多知名图书馆和研究机构，从浩如烟海的资料中探寻历史的隐秘；他访问了100多位散布美国各个角落的朝鲜战争幸存老兵，在无法承受的生命之重中聆听人性的呼唤。朝鲜战争对参战各方来说都是很残酷的。哈伯斯塔姆为我们描绘和剖析了二战后这场“为...(展开全部)

An utterly original and illuminating work that meets at the crossroads of autobiography and ethnography to re-examine violence and memory through the eyes of a child. Seeing Like a Child is a deeply moving narrative that showcases an unexpected voice from an established researcher. Through an unwavering commitment to a child’s perspective, Clara Han explores how the catastrophi...(展开全部)

An utterly original and illuminating work that meets at the crossroads of autobiography and ethnography to re-examine violence and memory through the eyes of a child. Seeing Like a Child is a deeply moving narrative that showcases an unexpected voice from an established researcher. Through an unwavering commitment to a child’s perspective, Clara Han explores how the catastrophi...(展开全部)

Buddhist nun Wookwan breaks the boundaries of spiritual exercise and culinary practice in this first-of-its-kind meditative cookbook of Korean temple cuisine. As the first volume of temple cuisine published in English, Wookwan herself has written an elegant volume that introduces the reader to Korean temple food, including what it means to care for the ingredients at each step ...(展开全部)

Food, and in particular the lack of it, was central to the experience of the Second World War. In this richly detailed and engaging history, Lizzie Collingham establishes how control of food and its production is crucial to total war. How were the imperial ambitions of Germany and Japan - ambitions which sowed the seeds of war - informed by a desire for self-sufficiency in food...(展开全部)