Organized in the immediate aftermath of World War Two by the victorious Allies, the Nuremberg Trials were intended to hold the Nazis to account for their crimes — and to restore a sense of justice to a world devastated by violence. As Francine Hirsch reveals in this immersive, gripping, and ground-breaking book, a major piece of the Nuremberg story has routinely been omitted fr...(展开全部)

Sean McMeekin is Professor of History at Bard College, New York. For some years he taught at Bilkent University, Ankara. His books include the highly successful The Berlin-Baghdad Express (Penguin), The Russian Origins of the First World War and The Ottoman Endgame (Penguin).

A prize-winning historian reveals how Stalin--not Hitler--was the animating force of World War II in this major new history. World War II endures in the popular imagination as a heroic struggle between good and evil, with villainous Hitler driving its events. But Hitler was not in power when the conflict erupted in Asia--and he was certainly dead before it ended. His armies did...(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。

In this remarkable, ground-breaking new book Sean McMeekin marks a generational shift in our view of Stalin as an ally in the Second World War. Stalin's only difference from Hitler, he argues, was that he was a successful murderous predator. With Hitler dead and the Third Reich in ruins, Stalin created an immense new Communist empire. Among his holdings were Czechoslovakia and ...(展开全部)

[英]休·斯特拉坎牛津大学战争史学教授，英国皇家历史学会会员。著作包括《欧洲陆军与战争行为》《英国陆军政治》《第一次世界大战，第一卷：致武器》《牛津第一次世界大战史》等作品“牛津欧洲史”系列的作者“人均院士”，都是来自牛津大学等名校的教授、欧美史学界学科带头人，该系列的每一本都是该领域的最顶级的学者、最权威大牛所作。

[英]休·斯特拉坎牛津大学战争史学教授，英国皇家历史学会会员。著作包括《欧洲陆军与战争行为》《英国陆军政治》《第一次世界大战，第一卷：致武器》《牛津第一次世界大战史》等作品“牛津欧洲史”系列的作者“人均院士”，都是来自牛津大学等名校的教授、欧美史学界学科带头人，该系列的每一本都是该领域的最顶级的学者、最权威大牛所作。

[英]理查德·奥弗里（Richard Overy），艾克赛特大学历史学教授。在20世纪战争史与独裁政权研究领域已撰写超过25本著作，其中包括饱受赞誉的《同盟国为何胜利》（Why the Allies Won, 1995），以及获奖著作《独裁者们：希特勒的德国与斯大林的俄罗斯》（The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia，2004）。不列颠学会（British Academy）会员，欧洲科学与艺术学院（European Academy of Sciences and Arts）院士。他新的一本著作题为《轰炸战争：欧洲1939-1945》（The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945，2013），该书于2014年获坎迪尔历史著作奖（Cundill Prize award f...(展开全部)

The cultural epoch we know as the Renaissance emerged at a certain time and in a certain place. Why then and not earlier? Why there and not elsewhere? In The World at First Light, historian Bernd Roeck explores the cultural and historical preconditions that enabled the European Renaissance. Roeck shows that the rediscovery of ancient knowledge, including the science of the medi...(展开全部)

A landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s leaders as war criminals—the largely overlooked Asian counterpart to Nuremberg In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the world turned to the question of how to move on from years of carnage and destruction. For Harry Truman, Douglas MacArthur, Chiang Kai-shek, and their fellow vict...(展开全部)