邓肯•安德森（Duncan Anderson） 曾任英国桑德赫斯特皇家军事学院战争研究系主任，德蒙特福特大学高级研究员。著有《帝国的灭亡》《登陆日：从诺曼底到解放巴黎》《战争中的世界1939—1945》和《现代战争的精英：特种部队的编制、训练和使用1917—1993》等二十余部作品。多次受邀担任历史频道、发现频道、国家地理和BBC等电视频道专栏中有关第二次世界大战历史纪录片的顾问和解说嘉宾。 劳埃德•克拉克（Lloyd Clark） 曾任桑德赫斯特皇家军事学院战争研究系高级讲师，研究方向为空军史及第一次世界大战。其作品广泛涉及军事历史的诸多方面，包括《第一次世界大战历史解读》《帝国的灭亡》（合著）等。 斯蒂芬•华尔什（Stephen Walsh） 曾任桑德赫斯特皇家军事学院战争研究系高级讲师，研究方向为苏联军事历史。著有《斯大林格勒战役：地狱熔炉》（...(展开全部)

【英】彼得·哈特（Peter Hart） 英国一战史、军事史、口述史专家。自1981年起任职于帝国战争博物馆。20世纪 80年代至90年代，他采访了英国仅存一批一战老兵，将他们的口述历史保存在了帝国战争博物馆。自仅存几位退伍军人去世后，这些录音成为前线真实声音的罕见的来源之一。哈特的历史研究围绕这些口述材料展开，代表作有《索姆河：西线黑暗的日子》《加里波利》《一战中的战斗故事》等。 译者简介： 徐萍，吉林大学文学院世界史系教授，博士生导师，中国世界现代史学会理事。译有《现代英国的形成》、《大英帝国与第一次世界大战》《地址的故事：地址簿里隐藏的身份、种族、财富与权力密码》。

During World War I, Britain and France imported workers from their colonies to labor behind the front lines. The single largest group of support labor came not from imperial colonies, however, but from China. Xu Guoqi tells the remarkable story of the 140,000 Chinese men recruited for the Allied war effort. These laborers, mostly illiterate peasants from north China, came volun...(展开全部)

During World War I, Britain and France imported workers from their colonies to labor behind the front lines. The single largest group of support labor came not from imperial colonies, however, but from China. Xu Guoqi tells the remarkable story of the 140,000 Chinese men recruited for the Allied war effort. These laborers, mostly illiterate peasants from north China, came volun...(展开全部)

First published in 1974, The Front Runner raced to international acclaim - the first novel about gay love to become popular with mainstream. In 1975, coach Harlan Brown is hiding from his past at an obscure New York college, after he was fired from Penn State University on suspicion of being gay. A tough, lonely ex-Marine of 39, Harlan has never allowed himself to love anoth...(展开全部)

During the Second World War millions of men left their homes and families to fight for their country. Meanwhile, those waving a tearful goodbye had to carry on. They dug their allotments, measured out

This is the special edition of "QUOTATION" Worldwide Creative Journal. Reporting on what is happening in the contemporary Japanese creative scene attracts attention from around the world, so for this issue "QUOTATION" have selected people and places from an array of media, and introduce them by category. It doesn't matter whether they are famous or not, the selections are made ...(展开全部)

How exactly is technology transforming us and our worlds, and what (if anything) can and should we do about it? Heidegger already felt this philosophical question concerning technology pressing in on him in 1951, and his thought-full and deliberately provocative response is still worth pondering today. What light does his thinking cast not just on the nuclear technology of the ...(展开全部)

Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German army of World War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they have learned, they break into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. And as horrible war plods on year after year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men o...(展开全部)