肖恩·帕内尔，是一名前美军的游骑兵，在传奇性的第10山地师服役了六年，最后以上尉军衔退役。他获得过两枚铜星勋章（其中一枚附有英勇嘉奖），一枚紫心勋章。目前他正在迪尤肯大学攻读临床心理学博士学位。他跟妻子以及两个孩子住在宾夕法尼亚州的匹茨堡。 约翰·R·布鲁宁，是十五部非小说类著作的作者或合著者，他的作品包括广受好评的《剑影》（与耶利米·沃克曼合著）和《巷战》（与戴维·贝拉维亚合著）。为了本书的写作，他于2010年赶赴阿富汗，“嵌入”到联军部队中体验生活。目前，他跟妻子以及两个孩子住在俄勒冈。

In this vivid account of the U.S. Army's legendary 10th Mountain Division's heroic stand in the mountains of Afghanistan, Captain Sean Parnell shares an action-packed and highly emotional true story of triumph, tragedy, and the extraordinary bonds forged in battle. At twenty-four years of age, U.S. Army Ranger Sean Parnell was named commander of a forty-man elite infantry plato...(展开全部)

In the aftermath of the Battle of Britain, airmen filled a small town where pioneering plastic surgeon Archibald McIndoe established revolutionary surgical and therapeutic treatments. For the child Liz Byrski, growing up in East Grinstead, the burnt faces of these airmen filled her nightmares. In her late 60s, Liz returned to make peace with her memories and to speak not only w...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 乌娜·A. 海瑟薇，耶鲁大学法学院杰拉德·C.（Gerard C.）和伯尼斯·拉特罗布·史密斯（Bernice Latrobe Smith）国际法和政治学教授，全球法律挑战中心主任。在哈佛大学获得学士学位，在耶鲁大学法学院获得法学博士学位。现居于康涅狄格州纽黑文。 斯科特·J. 夏皮罗，耶鲁大学法学院查尔斯·F. 索斯迈德（Charles F. Southmayd）法学和哲学教授，法律与哲学中心主任。伦敦大学学院裘恩法理学客座教授。在哥伦比亚大学获得文学学士和哲学博士学位，在耶鲁大学法学院获得法学博士学位。现居于康涅狄格州纽黑文。 【译者简介】 朱世龙，中国人民大学法学博士（国际关系），现为常州大学马克思主义学院教师，兼任中国高等教育学会国际政治研究专业委员会理事、江苏省政治学会常务理事。学习兴趣为全球治理、中国外交等。译有《世界政治中...(展开全部)

查尔斯·西格尔（Charles Segal，1936-2002），美国古典学家。1961 年获哈佛大学博士学位。曾先后任教于宾夕法尼亚大学，布朗大学，普林斯顿大学，自1990 年起在哈佛大学担任希腊文和拉丁文教授。西格尔擅长古典文学，研究领域广阔，在奥维德、荷马、塞涅卡和欧里庇得斯的研究方面均有建树，尤以解读诗歌为胜，是20世纪最为高产的古典学家之一。一生发表论文无数，出版专著21 部，除本书外，代表作还包括Landscape in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (1969), Tragedy and Civilization: An Interpretation of Sophocles (1981，中文版三联书店即出), Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides’ Bacchae (1982), Lucretiu...(展开全部)

Forget everything you think you know about Blackwater. And get ready for a thrilling, true story that will make you rethink who the good guys and bad guys have been since 9/11. http://www.amazon.com/Civilian-Warriors-Inside-Blackwater-Unsung/dp/1591847214

Although the Iliad and Odyssey narrate only relatively small portions of the Trojan War and its aftermath, for centuries these works have overshadowed other, more comprehensive narratives of the conflict, particularly the poems known as the Epic Cycle. In The Tradition of the Trojan War in Homer and the Epic Cycle, Jonathan Burgess challenges Homer's authority on the war's hist...(展开全部)

Between the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century and the collapse of the east in the face of the Arab invasions in the seventh, the remarkable era of the Emperor Justinian (527-568) dominated the Mediterranean region. Famous for his conquests in Italy and North Africa, and for the creation of spectacular monuments such as the Hagia Sophia, his reign was also ma...(展开全部)

From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties―and the youth and humanity of many tens of thousands more. Creating controversy and outrage when it was first published in the USSR―it was called by reviewers there a “slanderous piece of fantasy” and part of a “hysterical chorus of malign attacks”―Zinky Boys pre...(展开全部)

Ever since the first human settlements 10,000 years ago, weeds have dogged our footsteps. They are there as the punishment of 'thorns and thistles' in Genesis and , two millennia later, as a symbol of Flanders Field. They are civilisations' familiars, invading farmland and building-sites, war-zones and flower-beds across the globe. Yet living so intimately with us, they have be...(展开全部)