The groundbreaking investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about the longest war in American history by Washington Post reporter Craig Whitlock, a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At fi...(展开全部)

The first authoritative history of American's longest war by one of the world's leading scholar-practitioners. The American war in Afghanistan, which began in 2001, is now the longest armed conflict in the nation's history. It is currently winding down, and American troops are likely to leave soon ― but only after a stay of nearly two decades. In The American War in Afghanistan...(展开全部)

In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Taft, his gun-toting daughter Alice and a gaggle of congressmen on a mission to Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. There, they would quietly forge a series of agreements that divided up Asia. At the time, Roosevelt was bully-confident about America's future on the continent. But these secret pacts lit ...(展开全部)

In 1905 President Teddy Roosevelt dispatched Secretary of War William Howard Taft on the largest U.S. diplomatic mission in history to Hawaii, Japan, the Philippines, China, and Korea. Roosevelt's glamorous twenty-one year old daughter Alice served as mistress of the cruise, which included senators and congressmen. On this trip, Taft concluded secret agreements in Roosevelt's n...(展开全部)

In 1912 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a short story about a war fought from underwater submersibles that included the sinking of passenger ships. It was dismissed by the British admirals of the day, not on the basis of technical feasibility, but because sinking civilian ships was not something that any civilised nation would do. The reality of war often contradicts expectations,...(展开全部)

沙伊斯塔·瓦哈卜（Shaista Wahab）出生于阿富汗首都喀布尔。曾就读于喀布尔大学、新德里大学和内布拉斯加大学，拥有历史和信息科学学位。她目前是内布拉斯加大学的亚瑟·保罗阿富汗博物馆的编目员和馆长。 巴里·扬格曼（Barry Youngerman）是小说家、翻译家和编辑，具有超过25年的写作经验，著作较多，目前他居住在美国纽约市。

沙伊斯塔·瓦哈卜（Shaista Wahab）出生于阿富汗首都喀布尔。曾就读于喀布尔大学、新德里大学和内布拉斯加大学，拥有历史和信息科学学位。她目前是内布拉斯加大学的亚瑟·保罗阿富汗博物馆的编目员和馆长。 巴里·扬格曼（Barry Youngerman）是小说家、翻译家和编辑，具有超过25年的写作经验，著作较多，目前他居住在美国纽约市。

沙伊斯塔·瓦哈卜（Shaista Wahab）出生于阿富汗首都喀布尔。曾就读于喀布尔大学、新德里大学和内布拉斯加大学，拥有历史和信息科学学位。她目前是内布拉斯加大学的亚瑟·保罗阿富汗博物馆的编目员和馆长。 巴里·扬格曼（Barry Youngerman）是小说家、翻译家和编辑，具有超过25年的写作经验，著作较多，目前他居住在美国纽约市。

World War I altered the landscape of the modern world in every conceivable arena. Millions died; empires collapsed; new ideologies and political movements arose; poison gas, warplanes, tanks, submarines, and other technologies appeared. "Total war" emerged as a grim, mature reality. In The Great War, Peter Hart provides a masterful combat history of this global conflict. Focusi...(展开全部)