Postcards as a medium of correspondence became popular in the early years of the twentieth century. This soon became a flood as hundreds of thousands of postcards found their way into the postal syste

【英】彼得·哈特（Peter Hart） 英国一战史、军事史、口述史专家。自1981年起任职于帝国战争博物馆。20世纪 80年代至90年代，他采访了英国仅存一批一战老兵，将他们的口述历史保存在了帝国战争博物馆。自仅存几位退伍军人去世后，这些录音成为前线真实声音的罕见的来源之一。哈特的历史研究围绕这些口述材料展开，代表作有《索姆河：西线黑暗的日子》《加里波利》《一战中的战斗故事》等。 译者简介： 徐萍，吉林大学文学院世界史系教授，博士生导师，中国世界现代史学会理事。译有《现代英国的形成》、《大英帝国与第一次世界大战》《地址的故事：地址簿里隐藏的身份、种族、财富与权力密码》。

Since December 2006, The Atlantic Monthly's James Fallows has been writing some of the most discerning accounts of the economic and political transformation occuring in China. The twelve essays collected here cover a wide range of topics: from visionary tycoons and TV-battling entrepreneurs to environmental pollution and how China subsidizes our economy. Fallows expertly and lu...(展开全部)

"The New Yorker" was launched in 1925, and offers reporting, criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, humour, and cartoons. From the very outset, the founders, Harold Ross and Jane Grant, declared that their sophisticated magazine was 'not edited for the old lady in Dubuque'. "The New Yorker" has also offered great literature in short stories from such acclaimed writers as John Chee...(展开全部)

40 POSTCARDS FROM THE BESTSELLING TRAVEL PHTOGRAPHY BOOK 　　THE BRAVEL BOOK: A JOURNEY THROUGH EVERY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD

Selected from twenty years' worth of photographs by award-winning Magnum member Larry Towell, "The World From My Front Porch" is a collection of photographs of family life in northern Ontario-a romantic and beautiful rural idyll. This photo-essay is at the heart of a book that also, in separate sections of albums and found objects, explores both the history of Towell's front po...(展开全部)

Selected from twenty years' worth of photographs by award-winning Magnum member Larry Towell, "The World From My Front Porch" is a collection of photographs of family life in northern Ontario-a romantic and beautiful rural idyll. This photo-essay is at the heart of a book that also, in separate sections of albums and found objects, explores both the history of Towell's front po...(展开全部)

The Western Front evokes images of mud-spattered men in waterlogged trenches, shielded from artillery blasts and machine-gun fire by a few feet of dirt. This iconic setting was the most critical arena of the Great War, a 400-mile combat zone stretching from Belgium to Switzerland where more than three million Allied and German soldiers struggled during four years of almost cont...(展开全部)

1914 年至 1918 年西线残酷战斗的全景历史，这场战斗定义了现代战争。 西线让人联想到满身泥浆的士兵在浸水的战壕中，用几英尺厚的泥土挡住炮火和机枪射击。这个标志性的场景是一战关键的战场，一个从比利时延伸到瑞士的 400 英里战区，超过三百万盟军和德国士兵在四年几乎不间断的战斗中苦苦挣扎。它在我们的集体记忆中一直存在，是人类生命的悲惨浪费，也是工业化战争恐怖的象征。 在这部史诗般的叙事史书中，知名军事历史学家尼克·劳埃德 (Nick Lloyd) 记录了西线战场上可怕的战斗，从 1914 年 8 月德国突然入侵比利时开始，一直到 1918 年 11 月停战。劳埃德利用法国、英国、德国和美国的资料，编织了马恩河、帕斯尚尔河、默兹-阿尔贡河和其他关键战役的万花筒般的编年史，这些战役在整个欧洲和整个战争中产生了反响。从年仅 17 岁的士兵受苦牺牲的战壕...(展开全部)

邓肯•安德森（Duncan Anderson） 曾任英国桑德赫斯特皇家军事学院战争研究系主任，德蒙特福特大学高级研究员。著有《帝国的灭亡》《登陆日：从诺曼底到解放巴黎》《战争中的世界1939—1945》和《现代战争的精英：特种部队的编制、训练和使用1917—1993》等二十余部作品。多次受邀担任历史频道、发现频道、国家地理和BBC等电视频道专栏中有关第二次世界大战历史纪录片的顾问和解说嘉宾。 劳埃德•克拉克（Lloyd Clark） 曾任桑德赫斯特皇家军事学院战争研究系高级讲师，研究方向为空军史及第一次世界大战。其作品广泛涉及军事历史的诸多方面，包括《第一次世界大战历史解读》《帝国的灭亡》（合著）等。 斯蒂芬•华尔什（Stephen Walsh） 曾任桑德赫斯特皇家军事学院战争研究系高级讲师，研究方向为苏联军事历史。著有《斯大林格勒战役：地狱熔炉》（...(展开全部)