肖恩·帕内尔，是一名前美军的游骑兵，在传奇性的第10山地师服役了六年，最后以上尉军衔退役。他获得过两枚铜星勋章（其中一枚附有英勇嘉奖），一枚紫心勋章。目前他正在迪尤肯大学攻读临床心理学博士学位。他跟妻子以及两个孩子住在宾夕法尼亚州的匹茨堡。 约翰·R·布鲁宁，是十五部非小说类著作的作者或合著者，他的作品包括广受好评的《剑影》（与耶利米·沃克曼合著）和《巷战》（与戴维·贝拉维亚合著）。为了本书的写作，他于2010年赶赴阿富汗，“嵌入”到联军部队中体验生活。目前，他跟妻子以及两个孩子住在俄勒冈。

The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon the whole of human civilisation is under threat, as powerful Martians bu...(展开全部)

Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Hebrew University's van Creveld remains unsurpassed as a scholar of war. In this provocative volume, he challenges perhaps the subject's single greatest shibboleth—at least in Western culture. Since the Enlightenment, war has been described as a means to an end, serving essentially rational interests. Nothing, van Creveld...(展开全部)

Since man first wielded a stick in anger, war and conflict have been prime movers in the progress of science and technology. In our earliest days the impetus may have been as simple as protecting territory or a food supply; more recently science has benefited from massive injections of cash when national security is at stake. But as Michael White demonstrates in this superbly w...(展开全部)

These two classic works capture the tide of world events even as they unfold the compelling tale of a single North American family drawn into the very center of the wars maelstrom. These two multimillion-copy bestsellers capture all the drama, romance, heroism, and tragedy of the Second World War.

"His territory is [where] passion and eloquence collide and fuse.'—The New York Times "Richard Siken writes about love, desire, violence, and eroticism with a cinematic brilliance and urgency."—Huffington Post Richard Siken's debut, Crush, won the Yale Younger Poets' Prize, sold over 20,000 copies, and earned him a devoted fan-base. In this much-anticipated second book, Richard...(展开全部)

The greatest military textbook of the nineteenth century, this famous analysis of the art of Napoleonic warfare had a profound influence upon the military education of American officers in the decades prior to the Civil War.

Review A "Washington Post" best-seller " Absorb this book, and you can throw out all those contemporary books about management leadership." — "Newsweek" " A breast-pocket favorite of many commanders and U.S. Marines." — "Christian Science Monitor" " "The Art of War" soon could join Machiavelli's "The Prince" as required reading in the executive suite." — "USA Today"

December 1937. The Japanese have taken Nanking. A group of terrified schoolgirls hides in the compound of an American church. Among them is Shujuan, through whose thirteen-year-old eyes we witness the shocking events that follow. Run by Father Engelmann, an American priest who has been in China for many years, the church is supposedly neutral ground in the war between China and...(展开全部)