History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered "decisive." Cannae, Konigsberg, Austerlitz, Midway, Agincourt-all resonate in the literature of war and in our imaginations as tide-turning. But these legendary battles may or may not have determined the final outco...(展开全部)

作者简介 卡塔尔·诺兰是波士顿大学帕迪全球研究学院（Pardee School of Global Studies）的历史教授和国际历史研究所所长。他以笔名卡利·阿尔索巴（Kali Altsoba）发表出版未来军事小说，其中已发表的系列小说《猎户座战争》（Orion War）已有七部。 译者简介 丘梦晨，自由译者。

A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the Mediterranean - an epic five hundred year voyage that encompassed crusade and trade, plague, sea battles and colonial adventure. In Venice, the path to empire unfolded in a series of extraordinary contests - the sacking of Constantinop...(展开全部)

A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the Mediterranean - an epic five hundred year voyage that encompassed crusade and trade, plague, sea battles and colonial adventure. In Venice, the path to empire unfolded in a series of extraordinary contests - the sacking of Constantinop...(展开全部)

The Battle of the Atlantic was the single most important - and longest - campaign of the Second World War. If Britain lost this vital supply route it lost the war. In Jonathan Dimbleby's brilliant and dramatic new account we see how this epic struggle for maritime mastery played out, from the politicians and admirals to the men on and under the sea and their families waiting at...(展开全部)

"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extrao...(展开全部)

Clinging to a rugged hillside in the lush valley of Sparta lies Mistra, one of the most dramatically beautiful Byzantine cities in Greece, a place steeped in history, myth, and romance. Following the Frankish conquest of the Peloponnese in the thirteenth century, William II of Villehardouin built a great castle on a hill near Sparta that later came to be known as Mistra. Ten ye...(展开全部)

In this sensational chronicle, first published in 1958, Burgo Partridge (scion of Bloomsbury luminaries Ralph and Frances Partridge) coolly and with great erudition, tells the story of one of the most fascinating of social phenomena: the orgy.

【作者简介】 斯蒂文•朗西曼（Steven Runciman，1903~2000），英国著名历史学者，极具影响力的拜占庭史、中世纪史研究者。出身于贵族世家，精通多门语言。自剑桥三一学院毕业后，周游列国，于多所大学任教，1942年至1945年任伊斯坦布尔大学拜占庭艺术与历史学教授，其间出版了代表性作品三卷本的《十字军史》（A History of the Crusades）。此外还著有多部享有盛誉的作品，包括《拜占庭文明》（Byzantine Civilisation）、《西西里晚祷事件》（The Sicilian Vespers）和《君士坦丁堡的陷落》（The Fall of Constantinople）。 【译者简介】 谭琦，哈尔滨理工大学语言文学类硕士，专职翻译，醉心于探究与考证之乐。译有《大围攻：马耳他1565》。

Arlette Farge’s Le Goût de l’archive is widely regarded as a historiographical classic. While combing through two-hundred-year-old judicial records from the Archives of the Bastille, historian Farge was struck by the extraordinarily intimate portrayal they provided of the lives of the poor in pre-Revolutionary France, especially women. She was seduced by the sensuality of old m...(展开全部)