Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes readers on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden and describes the terrible cost of bombing for the German people. Fighting at 25,000 feet in t...(展开全部)

Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes readers on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden and describes the terrible cost of bombing for the German people. Fighting at 25,000 feet in t...(展开全部)

杜黑1869年5月30日，杜黑出生于意大利南部那不勒斯以北23公里处一个名叫卡塞塔的小镇。他出身于军人世家，家中几代都为萨伏依王室服务。由于受家庭熏陶，杜黑自幼立志继承父业，从军习武。他先是进入都灵军事工程学校学习，由于学习刻苦，成绩优异，1888年毕业时，被直接授予炮兵中尉军衔，时年19岁。后来，杜黑又进入陆军大学学习，研究有关现代战争的战略战术以及战争中的后勤问题。毕业后，他被派到陆军许多岗位上工作。无论在哪里，他都致力于科学技术与军事应用相结合。深厚的科技知识和军事知识功底，使他工作成绩十分突出，很快就晋升为上尉，并调到陆军参谋部工作。20世纪初，他受命参加研究意大利军队的机械化问题，预见到飞机在军事上将有重大的作用，从此走上了一条探索研究空军理论的坎坷人生之路。 1903年12月17日，美国莱特兄弟在北卡罗来纳州的基蒂霍克首次驾驶一架有动力的...(展开全部)

From the bestselling author of Savages (now an Oliver Stone film). An explosive novel of the drug trade, The Power of the Dog , takes you deep inside a world riddled with corruption, betrayal, and bloody revenge. Art Montana is an obsessive DEA agent. The Barrera brothers are heirs to a drug empire. Nora Hayden is a jaded teenager who becomes a high-class hooker. Father ...(展开全部)

Serving as a sequel to Kaigun, the prize-winning study of the surface and sub-surface forces of the Imperial Japanese Navy, this work illuminates the rise of Japanese naval aviation from its genesis in 1909 to its thunderbolt capability on the eve of the Pacific War. It provides the most detailed account yet available in English of Japan's naval air campaign over China from 193...(展开全部)

In The Power of the Actor , a Los Angeles Times bestseller, premier acting teacher and coach Ivana Chubbuck reveals her cutting-edge technique, which has launched some of the most successful acting careers in Hollywood. The first book from the instructor who has taught Charlize Theron, Brad Pitt, Elisabeth Shue, Djimon Hounsou, and Halle Berry, The Power of the Actor ...(展开全部)

Václav Havel’s remarkable and rousing essay on the tyranny of apathy, with a new introduction by Timothy Snyder Cowed by life under Communist Party rule, a greengrocer hangs a placard in their shop window: Workers of the world, unite! Is it a sign of the grocer’s unerring ideology? Or a symbol of the lies we perform to protect ourselves? Written in 1978, Václav Havel’s meditati...(展开全部)

Spanning the years from the rise of the Mexican drug Federación in the 1970s to the Iran-Contra affair in the 1980s to the vicious drug wars of the 1990s, the action ranges from Manhattan’s Hell’s Kitchen and the halls of Washington to the streets of Tijuana and the deserts of the American Southwest. The players: a DEA agent, a drug lord, a call girl, a hit man, a priest. Caugh...(展开全部)