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)

作者：史蒂文·普莱斯菲尔德（Steven Pressfield）是美国历史小说家，著有《火之门》(Gates of Fire)、《战争浪潮》(Tides of War)等畅销历史小说，《一生之敌》(The War of Art)、《入行》(Turning Pro)等经典非虚构作品。他曾历经27年才出版第一本小说，期间在11个州做了21份不同的工作。普莱斯菲尔德也曾是一名海军陆战队员。2003 年，被斯巴达市列为荣誉市民。 译者：赵硕硕，毕业于浙江大学传播学专业，前TBWA中国策略总监，现为自由内容创作者。

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)

As the only person to rise from entry-level analyst to Director of the CIA and to serve on the White House staffs of four Presidents, Robert Gates is uniquely qualified to tell the unprecedented inside story of the Cold War. Drawing on his access to classified information and top-level involvement in policy decisions, Gates lays bare the hidden wars and operations the United St...(展开全部)

罗伯特•M.盖茨 1943年出生。他被誉为“改变五角大楼的八朝元老”、冷战后美国军政界“活化石”、美国政坛“不倒翁”。1966年，他加入中情局，成为一名苏联问题分析师。1974-1979年，进入美国国家安全委员会工作，期间先后经历了尼克松、福特和卡特三位总统执政。1979年之后盖茨回到中情局，得到当时的局长凯西的提拔重用，历掌要职。1991年11月，老布什总统提名他接掌中情局，1993年1月，随着老布什总统任期结束，盖茨卸去中情局局长职务。卸任后，他曾在2002年担任德克萨斯农工大学校长。2006年，在伊拉克局势面临失控、阿富汗战争局势持续恶化等大背景下，盖茨受命于危难之中，出任国防部长。2008年，奥巴马当选美国总统后，盖茨继续留任执掌五角大楼，2011年离任，是美国历史上唯一任期跨越总统换届并同时跨越两党的元老。

Food, and in particular the lack of it, was central to the experience of the Second World War. In this richly detailed and engaging history, Lizzie Collingham establishes how control of food and its production is crucial to total war. How were the imperial ambitions of Germany and Japan - ambitions which sowed the seeds of war - informed by a desire for self-sufficiency in food...(展开全部)

The Battle is the book Balzac always wanted to write and, beginning his story with Balzac's own words ('On Tuesday 16th May 1809 ...'), Rambaud has finally achieved his predecessor's dream. The eponymous battle now commonly described as Napoleon's first major defeat on land in Europe took place at Essling, near Vienna; forty thousand men died in forty-eight hours. With vivid de...(展开全部)

The winner of the Prix Goncourt and Grand Prix du Roman de l'Academie Francaise, The Battle is a brilliant, compelling novelization of the battle of Essling, Napoleon's first major defeat. The battle of Essling has long been overlooked by historians and novelists, but Rambaud, relying on research notes compiled by Honore de Balzac, has re-created the confrontation with exceptio...(展开全部)

巴里·施特劳斯（Barry Strauss），美国康奈尔大学古典学系和历史学系教授，研究方向为古代军事史。他撰写了多部著作，包括《特洛伊战争》《斯巴达克斯战争》等。