安东尼·比弗，英国历史学家、历史题材畅销书作者。在温切斯特和桑德赫斯特接受了军事教育，并曾作为一名后备军官，随军在德国和英国服役。结束军旅生涯后，他先写小说，后改写战争纪实，大概他发现，现实生活特别是战争时期生活的戏剧性总是超出人的想象力。比弗的绝大部分著作由企鹅出版社出版。其中： 《西班牙内战》和《克里特：战斗和抵抗》获得伦西曼奖； 《保卫斯大林格勒》以其真实的细节和曲折的叙事，获得约翰逊散文文学奖、沃尔夫森历史史实故事奖和霍桑顿文学奖，已被翻译成二十几种语言； 《攻克柏林》获得第一届今日朗文历史理事奖。同样已被翻译成二十几种语言。 比弗曾荣获法国政府颁发的文学艺术骑士勋章，被肯特大学授予荣誉博士学位，他还是伦敦大学贝克特学院历史学、古典文学和考古学的访问学者。

Of the "Great Powers" that dominated Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Prussia is the only one to have vanished ..."Iron Kingdom" is not just good: it is everything a history book ought to be ...The nemesis of Prussia has cast such a long shadow that German historians have tiptoed around the subject. Thus it was left to an Englishman to write what is surely...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗·克拉克（Christopher Clark）,剑桥大学圣凯瑟琳学院现代欧洲史教授，著名历史学家，澳大利亚人文学院院士。曾于2007年英国历史学界殊荣“沃尔夫森历史奖”。2015年6月，因对英德关系研究做出了突出贡献，克拉克经英国外交大臣举荐，被授予爵士头衔。著有《梦游者》《钢铁帝国》等好评如潮的历史作品。

Of the "Great Powers" that dominated Europe from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Prussia is the only one to have vanished ..."Iron Kingdom" is not just good: it is everything a history book ought to be ...The nemesis of Prussia has cast such a long shadow that German historians have tiptoed around the subject. Thus it was left to an Englishman to write what is surely...(展开全部)

克里斯托弗·克拉克（Christopher Clark）,剑桥大学圣凯瑟琳学院现代欧洲史教授，著名历史学家，澳大利亚人文学院院士。曾于2007年英国历史学界殊荣“沃尔夫森历史奖”。2015年6月，因对英德关系研究做出了突出贡献，克拉克经英国外交大臣举荐，被授予爵士头衔。著有《梦游者》《钢铁帝国》等好评如潮的历史作品。

Archives bring to mind rooms filled with old papers and dusty artifacts. But for scientists, the detritus of the past can be a treasure trove of material vital to present and future research: fossils collected by geologists; data banks assembled by geneticists; weather diaries trawled by climate scientists; libraries visited by historians. These are the vital collections, assem...(展开全部)

Archives bring to mind rooms filled with old papers and dusty artifacts. But for scientists, the detritus of the past can be a treasure trove of material vital to present and future research: fossils collected by geologists; data banks assembled by geneticists; case histories published in medical journals; weather diaries and data silos trawled by climate scientists; libraries ...(展开全部)

With Peter Jackson's Acadamy Award-winning epic motion picture trilogy drawing to a spectacular and triumphant close, Gary Russell's detailed research takes us back into the world of Middle-earth, to relive all the visual drama and excitement of The Return of the King. The Art of The Return of the King illustrates the creative development of the film from sketch to special eff...(展开全部)