吴光雄（Mitsuo Kure），日本武士史专家，艺术家，现居日本东京。最早用英文创作武士题材图书的日本本土作家之一，在该领域享有较高声誉，其著作已成为西方世界的重要参考读物。

The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late seventeenth century, they were heavily featured in literature, art, theater, and even comedy, from the Tale of the Heike to the kabuki retellings of the 47 Ronin. This legacy remains with us today in the...(展开全部)

The idea of the sword-wielding samurai, beholden to a strict ethical code and trained in deadly martial arts, dominates popular conceptions of the samurai. As early as the late seventeenth century, they were heavily featured in literature, art, theater, and even comedy, from the Tale of the Heike to the kabuki retellings of the 47 Ronin. This legacy remains with us today in the...(展开全部)

One of the late Shusaku Endo's finest works, The Samurai tells of the journey of some of the first Japanese to set foot on European soil and the resulting clash of cultures and politics.

One of the late Shusaku Endo's finest works, The Samurai tells of the journey of some of the first Japanese to set foot on European soil and the resulting clash of cultures and politics.

野野村馨 (Kaoru Nonomura)，一九五九年生于神奈川县，毕业前夕曾前往亚洲各国旅行，后进设计事务所工作。三十岁那年突然辞职出家，在以严厉著称的曹洞宗大本山永平寺度过一年修行生活；之后再次回到设计事务所上班，在上下班的通勤电车上，开始执笔记录修行的日子，最后成为 本书。

"ONE OF THE GREAT SERIES OF MODERN DETECTIVE STORIES" So wrote Ellery Queen in the late 1940's when he introduced American readers to the writings of Vincent Cornier (1898-1976). Cornier's detective, Barnabas Hildreth, created for a British magazine in 1933, was not only an agent of the British Secret Service but was also known as "The Black Monk," and he faced (and solved) s...(展开全部)

克雷格•L.西蒙兹（Craig L. Symonds），一流的海洋历史学家，美国军事历史学会理事，美国海军学院荣休教授，曾任该学院历史系主任，著有多部有关美国海军历史的书籍，包括《海上决断：塑造美国历史的五场海战》（罗斯福海军历史奖）、《林肯和他的海军将领》（林肯奖）、《中途岛战役》（《军事史季刊》年度图书奖）、《海王行动：诺曼底登陆》（塞缪尔•莫里森海军文学奖）、《葛底斯堡战役》、《战争中的尼米兹》等。《决战大洋：第二次世界大战海战全史》是他的集大成之作，全面讲述了1939年到1945年间，所有参战国在世界各地洋面上进行的海上较量。