It's almost shocking to think that now, more than seventy years after the Nazi surrender in 1945, there is not a single volume that has attempted to unify the resistance movements that convulsed Europe during the brutal years of occupation. In her extraordinary work, Resistance, Halik Kochanski does just that, creating a prodigiously researched account that becomes the first to...(展开全部)

Across the whole of Nazi-ruled Europe the experience of occupation was sharply varied. Some countries - such as Denmark - were within tight limits allowed to run themselves. Others - such as France - were constrained not only by military occupation but by open collaboration. In a historical moment when Nazi victory seemed permanent and irreversible, the question 'why resist?' w...(展开全部)

艾伦•弗朗西斯•布鲁克（Alan Francis Brooke，1883-1963），英国陆军元帅、大英帝国总参谋长，他主导了二战时期英国的绝大多数重大战争决策，出席了战时同盟国召开的一系列重要国际会议，对赢得战争胜利做出了重大贡献。

This is the ultimate history of the Blitz and bombing in the Second World War, from Wolfson Prize-winning historian and author Richard Overy. The use of massive fleets of bombers to kill and terrorize civilians was an aspect of the Second World War which continues to challenge the idea that Allies specifically fought a 'moral' war. For Britain, bombing became perhaps its princi...(展开全部)

From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives—an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the ...(展开全部)

《抉择：波兰（1939-1945）》记述了二次大战犹太大屠杀中一位幸存者逃亡、隐匿、生存下来并挣扎重新开始生活的震撼故事。 作者伊爱莲出生于德国哈雷市一个殷实的犹太商人家庭。1938年底，年仅8岁的伊爱莲随父母一起被纳粹驱赶回到了老家——波兰的梅莱茨。从此伊爱莲家的生存状况一落千丈。 《抉择：波兰（1939-1945）》以穿插倒叙的手法，记录了梅莱茨的犹太人从1935年到1945年间，被德国纳粹有计划地遣送、清洗、屠杀的历程。作者用细腻的笔法，从自己的亲朋好友和生活环境入手，记录了一个恬淡安乐的犹太小镇是如何被恐怖气氛一步步逼近，犹太居民是怎样被纳粹有计划地剥夺财产与尊严，最终被纳粹有步骤、分批次地在肉体上绞杀的惨痛经过。

Already celebrated as the most important war diaries yet to appear, Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke's War Diaries 1939-1945, edited by Alex Danchev and Dan Todman, are full of fascinating and controversial stuff. But Alanbrooke's style should not be confused with that of Alan Clark: he does not set out to be controversial for controversy's own sake and there is little gossip or s...(展开全部)

Alanbrooke was CIGS - Chief of the Imperial General Staff - for the greater part of the Second World War. He acted as mentor to Montgomery and military adviser to Churchill, with whom he clashed. As chairman of the Chiefs of Staff committee he also led for the British side in the bargaining and the brokering of the Grand Alliance, notably during the great conferences with Roos...(展开全部)

A powerful, groundbreaking narrative of the ordinary Russian soldier’s experience of the worst war in history, based on newly revealed sources Of the thirty million who fought, eight million died, driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by German shells and tanks. They were the men and women of the Red Army, a ragtag mass of soldiers who confronted Europe’s most letha...(展开全部)

Of the thirty million who fought in the eastern front of World War II, eight million died, driven forward in suicidal charges, shattered by German shells and tanks. They were the men and women of the Red Army, a ragtag mass of soldiers who confronted Europe's most lethal fighting force and by 1945 had defeated it. Sixty years have passed since their epic triumph, but the heart ...(展开全部)