This is the story of an air campaign in which each bomb could dramatically influence the course of the war. In January 1942, the powerful German battleship Tirpitz sailed into her new base in a Norwegian fjord, within easy reach of the Arctic Convoys. Her destruction suddenly became a top Allied priority. But sinking a modern and formidably armed battleship was no easy task, es...(展开全部)

"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)

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)

作者简介 Jenifer Van Vleck，本科毕业于布朗大学，博士毕业于耶鲁大学。曾在耶鲁大学执教美国和世界历史，现在史密森航空学会从事研究工作。研究方向为美国对外关系历史，重点关注文化、技术和私营企业如何塑造美国的世界角色。她也是著名的世界航空发展史的研究者和学者。 译者简介 姜哲人，先后获得北京航空航天大学经济学学士学位、法国图卢兹高等商学院MBA学位。曾供职于中国航空工业集团有限公司民机产业部，从事航空外贸、政策研究、民机发展规划、国际合作等工作，主笔了《中国航空工业民用航空“十三五”产业发展规划实施意见》。长期关注并研究欧美航空工业发展历史及情况，同时也是一名航空科普志愿者。

Winner of the 2000 Harold Morton Landon Translati+C100on Award. A major Spanish poet of the Generation of '27, Jorge GuillA(c)n's luminous poetry, marked by nobility of mind, balance, and clarity of vision, deserves to be more widely known to readers of English. GuillA(c)n was born in Valladolid, Old Castile. At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936, he was arrested and...(展开全部)

While the Ottoman Empire is most often recognized today as a land power, for four centuries the seas of the Eastern Mediterranean were dominated by the Ottoman Navy. Yet to date, little is known about the seafarers who made up the sultans' fleet, the men whose naval mastery ensured that an empire from North Africa to Black Sea expanded and was protected, allowing global trading...(展开全部)

In the aftermath of the English Civil War, as people were groping for new forms of political order, Robert Boyle built an air-pump to do exper-iments. Does the story of Roundheads and Restoration have something to do with the origins of experimental sci-ence? Schaffer and Shapin believed it does. Focusing on the debates between Boyle and his archcritic Thomas Hobbes over the a...(展开全部)