The first history of the epic defeat of Napoleon's empire told from the Russian perspective. Though much has been written about Napoleon's doomed invasion of Russia and the collapse of the French Empire that ensued, virtually all of it has been from the Western perspective. Now, taking advantage of never- before-seen documents from the Russian archives, Dominic Lieven upen...(展开全部)

A major new history of the Russian conflict immortalized by Tolstoy in War and Peace Russia's expulsion of Napoleon's Grande Armée in 1812 is considered one of the most dramatic events in European history. However, Tolstoyan myth and an imbalance of British and French interpretations have clouded most Westerners' understanding of Russia's role in the defeat of Napoleon. ...(展开全部)

From “the great storyteller of Russian history” (Financial Times), a brilliantly colored account of the myths that have shaped and reshaped Russia’s identity and politics from its founding Who were the Rus, the ancient tribe from which the Russians trace their origins? Were they Baltic Slavs, hailing from within the territory that would become Russia? Or were they Vikings from ...(展开全部)

From one of America’s leading scholars of Russia who served as U.S. ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration, a revelatory, inside account of U.S.-Russia relations from 1989 to the present In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely presidential campaign, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of...(展开全部)

From one of America’s leading scholars of Russia who served as U.S. ambassador to Russia during the Obama administration, a revelatory, inside account of U.S.-Russia relations from 1989 to the present In 2008, when Michael McFaul was asked to leave his perch at Stanford and join an unlikely presidential campaign, he had no idea that he would find himself at the beating heart of...(展开全部)

A towering figure in the literary history of twentieth-century China, Lu Xun has exerted immense and continuous influence through his short stories, which remain today as powerful as they were first written. While echoes of these stories can still be heard in the fictional works from both sides of the Taiwan Strait in the eighties and nineties, The True Story of Ah Q has long b...(展开全部)

A towering figure in the literary history of twentieth-century China, Lu Xun has exerted immense and continuous influence through his short stories, which remain today as powerful as they were first written. While echoes of these stories can still be heard in the fictional works from both sides of the Taiwan Strait in the eighties and nineties, The True Story of Ah Q has long b...(展开全部)

约瑟夫·古尔登（Joseph Goulden），美国知名政治作家，曾长期从事情报分析工作，后投身新闻业，任《费城问讯报》华盛顿分社主管。古尔登在《朝鲜战争》前一部著作《黄金时代：1945-1950》（The Best Years：1945-1950）中涵盖了从美国对日战争胜利（V-J Days）到朝鲜战争的历史，被美国最权威的文化机构“每月一书俱乐部”选为力荐读物。另一著作《超级律师》（The Superlawyers）登上《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜达24周之久。 ★译者简介： 于滨，美国斯坦福大学博士，中国社会科学院研究生院硕士，北京外国语大学学士。现任美国文博大学政治系教授 、美国陆军战争学院访问学者，兼上海美国学会资深研究员、北京《外交观察》季刊策划。有中、英文学术著作6本，论文百余篇。 谈锋，毕业于北京大学、中国社会科学院研究生院，曾在美国斯坦...(展开全部)

约瑟夫·古尔登（Joseph Goulden），美国知名政治作家，曾长期从事情报分析工作，后投身新闻业，任《费城问讯报》华盛顿分社主管。古尔登在《朝鲜战争》前一部著作《黄金时代：1945-1950》（The Best Years：1945-1950）中涵盖了从美国对日战争胜利（V-J Days）到朝鲜战争的历史，被美国最权威的文化机构“每月一书俱乐部”选为力荐读物。另一著作《超级律师》（The Superlawyers）登上《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜达24周之久。 ★译者简介： 于滨，美国斯坦福大学博士，中国社会科学院研究生院硕士，北京外国语大学学士。现任美国文博大学政治系教授 、美国陆军战争学院访问学者，兼上海美国学会资深研究员、北京《外交观察》季刊策划。有中、英文学术著作6本，论文百余篇。 谈锋，毕业于北京大学、中国社会科学院研究生院，曾在美国斯坦...(展开全部)

A Business Week, New York Times Business, and USA Today Bestseller "Ambitious and readable . . . an engaging introduction to the oddsmakers, whom Bernstein regards as true humanists helping to release mankind from the choke holds of superstition and fatalism." -The New York Times "An extraordinarily entertaining and informative book." -The Wall Street Journal ...(展开全部)