列斯特·坦尼博士，1919年生，美国亚利桑那州立大学退休荣誉教授，巴丹死亡行军的幸存者，紫心勋章和青铜星章获得者，在日本战俘营中度过三年半时间，曾在日本福冈县大牟田17号战俘营充当奴隶矿工，现在他担任巴丹和克雷吉多保卫战老兵协会主席，是美国盟军战俘向日本政府索赔运动领袖。

Captured by the Japanese after the Philippines fell, Lester Tenney was among the few to survive the legendary Bataan Death March. He witnessed fellow POWs die by the hundreds from thirst, wounds, disease, and the Japanese guards' savage mistreatment. Armed only with his sense of humor, sharp mind, and fierce determination, Tenney then endured three and a half years as a slave l...(展开全部)

In this intellectual biography, Sebastian de Grazia presents a new vision of Machiavelli that evokes, with uncanny precision, the great Florentine thinker’s presence. After providing an engrossing account of Machiavelli's childhood and the period following his imprisonment and torture, the book turns to an examination of The Prince. The details of Machiavelli’s life never cease...(展开全部)

The humanitarian organisation, Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) delivers emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and those who lack reliable health care. Each year, more than 2,500 volunteer doctors, nurses, and other professionals join locally-hired staff to provide medical aid in more than eighty countries. At the forefront a...(展开全部)

Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF (aka Doctors Without Borders), was founded in 1971 by rebellious French doctors. It is arguably the most respected humanitarian organization in the world, delivering emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics and natural disasters as well as to many others who lack reliable health care. Dan Bortolotti follows the volunteers at the for...(展开全部)

作者罗伯特・s •拉什：从军47年，文武双全的北约老兵，打过60迫击炮，开过装甲悍马车，研究过二战部队史。拥有哲学和军事史、欧洲史、商业史博士学位，文学硕士学位。 历任迫击炮班班长，重武器排军士长，师级、军级、军种级历史学家，欧洲-大西洋冲突研究工作组主任。著有《二战中的美国步兵》《应募入伍士兵指导手册》《士官指导手册》《军事写作实用指南》等作品。 译者董旻杰：网名本垒打，军事作家、职业出版人，曾任多本知名军事刊物的主编。著有《二战苏德军服》、《东线：第三帝国的黑洞》、《沸腾的雪：阿登反击战》、《血色夜空：二战英德夜间空战实录》、《装甲英豪：二战德军装甲兵上将温克和他的部队》。译有《1945年的六个月：从盟友到对抗》、《1944阿登战役：希特勒的后反攻》

In her own words, here is the captivating story of Julia Child’s years in France, where she fell in love with French food and found ‘her true calling.’ From the moment the ship docked in Le Havre in the fall of 1948 and Julia watched the well-muscled stevedores unloading the cargo to the first perfectly soigné meal that she and her husband, Paul, savored in Rouen en ro...(展开全部)

Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States and the United Kingdom. He has been both a socialist opposed to the war in Vietnam and a supporter of the U.S. war against Islamic extremism in Iraq. He has been both a foreign correspondent in some of the world's most dangerous places and a legendary bon vivant with an unquenchab...(展开全部)

"IN THE PANTHEON OF MOVIE ACTION HEROES, THERE IS ONLY ONE TRUE GOD, AND HIS NAME IS JACKIE CHAN." --The Washington Post "JACKIE CHAN'S LIFE STORY READS LIKE A JACKIE CHAN MOVIE: LOTS OF ACTION." --Entertainment Weekly "Chan is the most inventively kinetic movie star since Fred Astaire--his martial arts/acrobatic/stunt riding virtuosity is matched only by a comic ability to c...(展开全部)