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。

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。

在线阅读本书 Winner of The Independent Foreign Fiction Award, this “hauntingly beautiful novel, written by a North Vietnamese Army veteran, manages to humanize completely a people who up until now have usually been cast as robotic fanatics.” — Sunday Times

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)

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)

马丁·多尔蒂，男，著有《维京人——挪威人和凯尔特人的历史》，也写过不少军事技术图书，如《中世纪的武器和作战技巧》，并参与《古代战争》和《中世纪战争》的编写，曾担任国防顾问，也著有自卫及现代军事技术相关的图书。

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)

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)

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.