A new interpretation of the Sarajevo assassination and the origins of World War I that places focus on the Balkans and the prewar period. The story has so often been told: Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Habsburg Empire, was shot dead on June 28, 1914, in the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. Thirty days later, the Archduke's uncle, Emperor Franz Joseph, declared...(展开全部)

Why did the Ottoman Empire enter the First World War in late October 1914, months after the war's devastations had become clear? Were its leaders 'simple-minded,' 'below-average' individuals, as the doyen of Turkish diplomatic history has argued? Or, as others have claimed, did the Ottomans enter the war because War Minister Enver Pasha, dictating Ottoman decisions, was in thra...(展开全部)

A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan—a crucial turning point in World War II and geopolitical history—with you-are-there immediacy by the New York Times bestselling author of Ike's Bluff and Sea of Thunder. “A terrifying, heartbreaking account of three men under unimaginable pressure . . . I challenge you not to read this ...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 多米尼克·利芬（Dominic Lieven），英国著名历史学家。毕业于剑桥大学历史系，现为剑桥大学三一学院高级研究员、英国学术院院士、伦敦政治经济学院荣休教授。他的《俄国与拿破仑的决战》（2015 年由甲骨文推出中文版）获2009 年沃尔夫森历史奖、2009 年拿破仑基金会拿破仑奖等诸多荣誉。 【译者简介】 苏然，法律从业者，先后就读于南开大学、中国政法大学，现为乔治城大学在读法学博士，译有《拿破仑大帝》。 王橙，现于法国攻读法国历史，译有《勇士中的勇士，拿破仑最富争议的元帅——米歇尔·奈伊传》、《拿破仑的第一骑兵——若阿基姆·缪拉传》、《拿破仑时代》（合译），并发表过《决战瓦夫尔》等文章。

On a wet afternoon in September 1938, Neville Chamberlain stepped off an aeroplane and announced that his visit to Hitler had averted the greatest crisis in recent memory. It was, he later assured the crowd in Downing Street, ‘peace for our time’. Less than a year later, Germany invaded Poland and the Second World War began. Appeasing Hitler is a compelling new narrative histor...(展开全部)

著者 阿瑟·马德尔出生于美国马萨诸塞州波士顿，就读于哈佛大学，1936年获得博士学位，1941—1942年在战略服务办公室担任研究分析师。1944年，马德尔被任命为夏威夷大学副教授，在那里任职20年，1964年，他被任命为加州大学尔湾分校历史系教授，专注于1880—1945年英国海军史研究。 译者 杨坚，生于广州，祖籍河南开封。毕业于华南理工大学，获工学博士学位。现居美国圣迭戈。自幼喜爱军事，多年来专攻英国近现代海军史。曾在《兵器》、《现代舰船》等杂志发表多篇海军史文章，并著有《伊丽莎白女王级战列舰》和《英国战列巡洋舰》等专著。

From the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a gripping work of narrative nonfiction, a riveting story of Europe and the world in the years leading up to World War I. Master writer and historian Margaret MacMillan creates a fascinating portrait of the personalities and factors that pushed Europe over the brink into a catastrophic, world-changing conflagra...(展开全部)

From the bestselling and award-winning author of Paris 1919 comes a gripping work of narrative nonfiction, a riveting story of Europe and the world in the years leading up to World War I. Master writer and historian Margaret MacMillan creates a fascinating portrait of the personalities and factors that pushed Europe over the brink into a catastrophic, world-changing conflagra...(展开全部)

"One of the best history books I've read in the last few years." —Chris Hayes The Field of Blood recounts the previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF SMITHSONIAN'S BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEAR Historian Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of ph...(展开全部)

An award-winning historian plumbs the depths of Hitler and Stalin's vicious regimes, and shows the extent to which they brutalized the world around them. Two 20th century tyrants stand apart from all the rest in terms of their ruthlessness and the degree to which they changed the world around them. Briefly allies during World War II, Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin then tried to...(展开全部)