If the Marines are the few, the proud, Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Nathaniel Ficks career begins with a hellish summer at Quantico, after his junior year at Dartmouth. He leads a platoon in Afghanistan just after 9/11 and advances to the pinnacleRecon two years later, on the eve of war with Iraq. His vast skill set puts him in front of the front lines, leadin...(展开全部)

A former captain in the Marines First Recon Battalion， who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq， reveals how the Corps trains its elite and offers a point-blank account of twenty-first-century battle.If the Marines are "the few， the proud，" Recon Marines are the fewest and the proudest. Only one Marine in a hundred qualifies for Recon， charged with working clandestinely， often behin...(展开全部)

Battalion 3/5 suffered the highest number of casualties in the war in Afghanistan. This is the story of one platoon in that distinguished battalion. Aware of U.S. plans to withdraw from the country, knowing their efforts were only a footprint in the sand, the fifty Marines of 3rd Platoon fought in Sangin, the most dangerous district in all of Afghanistan. So heavy were the cas...(展开全部)

作者简介 玛丽·露易丝·凯利（Mary Louise Kelly） 美国国家公共电台（NPR）和英国广播公司（BBC）的记者，喜欢周游世界，曾在哈佛大学和剑桥大学就读。她拥有丰富的时政报道经历，是一个经验老道的情报记者。 《时间的谎言》一上市便以惊险跌宕的情节、出人意料的设定，一鸣惊人，赢得了媒体和读者的热评。美国前中央情报局秘密行动官瓦莱丽·普拉姆也大加赞赏：“这是一本让人心跳加速的佳作”。 译者简介： 姚静，安徽人，硕士研究生，毕业于北京语言大学，研究方向为英美文学，现为中央戏剧学院英语讲师。

AN ANGOULEME AWARD WINNER RETURNS WITH A PARABLE ABOUT LIFE IN THE ART WORLD "The Making Of" is the follow-up to international sensation Brecht Evens's Eisner-nominated debut, "The Wrong Place." With lush watercolors and his characteristic wit, Evens details the fumbling, amateurish foibles of the participants of a small art festival in the Flemish countryside. Pieterjan is i...(展开全部)