In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler’s army was beaten and expected the bloodshed to end by Christmas. Yet a series of mistakes and setbacks, including the Battle of the Bulge, drastically altered this timetable and led to eight more months of brutal fighting. With Armageddon , the eminent military historian Max Hastings gives us memorable accounts of the great...(展开全部)

戴维·M. 格兰茨（DAVID M. GLANTZ），被誉为西方研究红军在伟大卫国战争中表现的首席专家、最高权威，1942年1月11日生于美国纽约州，美国陆军退役上校，毕业于弗吉尼亚军事学院、北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校、美国陆军指挥和总参学院以及国防语言学院等。曾作为野战炮兵军官在越南服役，后从事苏联陆军研究工作。1993年以美国陆军外国军事研究办公室主任身份退役，并继续担任《斯拉夫军事研究杂志》的编辑和俄罗斯联邦自然科学院成员。他笔耕不辍，慧眼所及，不仅涉及苏联的军事理论和战术，而且特别关注了苏德战争中历来不被重视的部分，即“被遗忘的战斗”，独立编著与合作作品包括《二战中的苏联军事欺骗》《从顿河到第聂伯河：1942年12月-1943年8月的苏军攻势》《苏联的军事战略》《巴巴罗萨行动：1941年希特勒入侵苏联》《列宁格勒会战：1941-1944》《哈尔...(展开全部)

Here are rhyming riddles that challenge readers to find objects hidden throughout bright, cluttered photographs.

Smith's beautifully crafted love letter to her friend Robert Mapplethorpe functions as a memento mori of a relationship fueled by a passion for art and writing. Her elegant eulogy lays bare the chaos and the creativity so embedded in that earlier time and in Mapplethorpe's life and work.

In Just Kids, Patti Smith’s first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith brings the same unique, lyrical quality to J...(展开全部)

In Just Kids, Patti Smith’s first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith brings the same unique, lyrical quality to J...(展开全部)

Smith's beautifully crafted love letter to her friend Robert Mapplethorpe functions as a memento mori of a relationship fueled by a passion for art and writing. Her elegant eulogy lays bare the chaos and the creativity so embedded in that earlier time and in Mapplethorpe's life and work.

You can’t choose your in-laws. One beautiful morning, Zhang Dongsheng pushes his wealthy in-laws off a mountain – the perfect crime. Or so he thinks. Even though the murders were as carefully choreographed as a play, he did not expect that three teenagers had caught him in the act. But Zhang Dongsheng seriously underestimated the smarts of those three kids. . . Dark, murky and ...(展开全部)

These two searingly funny and unsettling portraits of teenagers beyond the control and largely beneath the notice of adults in 1980s Taiwan are the first English translations of works by Taiwan's most famous and best-selling literary cult figure. Chang Ta-chun's intricate narrative and keen, ironic sense of humor poignantly and piercingly convey the disillusionment and cynicism...(展开全部)

These two searingly funny and unsettling portraits of teenagers beyond the control and largely beneath the notice of adults in 1980s Taiwan are the first English translations of works by Taiwan's most famous and best-selling literary cult figure. Chang Ta-chun's intricate narrative and keen, ironic sense of humor poignantly and piercingly convey the disillusionment and cynicism...(展开全部)