A narrative of exploration—full of strange landscapes and even stranger inhabitants—that explains the enduring fascination of France. While Gustave Eiffel was changing the skyline of Paris, large parts of France were still terra incognita. Even in the age of railways and newspapers, France was a land of ancient tribal divisions, prehistoric communication networks, and pre-Chris...(展开全部)

"A witty, engaging narrative style....[Robb's] approach is particularly engrossing."— New York Times Book Review , front-page review. A narrative of exploration—full of strange landscapes and even stranger inhabitants—that explains the enduring fascination of France. While Gustave Eiffel was changing the skyline of Paris, large parts of France were still terra incogn...(展开全部)

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)

Illuminating, engrossing and full of surprises, "The Discovery of France" is a literary exploration of a country few will recognize; from maps and migration to magic, language and landscape, it's a book that reveals the 'real' past of France to tell the whole story - and history - of this remarkable nation. 'With gloriously apposite facts and an abundance of quirky anecdotes an...(展开全部)

Hew Strachan is one of the world's foremost experts on the Great War of 1914-18. His ongoing three-volume history of the conflict, the first of which was published in 2001, is likely to become the standard academic reference work: Max Hastings called it 'one of the most impressive books of modern history in a generation', while Richard Holmes hailed it as a 'towering achievemen...(展开全部)

It will soon be close to a century since the outbreak of the First World War, yet as military historian Hew Strachan argues in this brilliant and authoritative one-volume history, the legacy of the "war to end all wars" is with us still. Written in crisp, compelling prose and enlivened with vivid photographs—including early color photographs— The First World War re-creates...(展开全部)

约翰•基根，伦敦《每日电讯报》防务主编，英国皇家文学学会会员，1998年BBC瑞思讲演人（Reith Lecturer），多年在英国桑霍斯特皇家军事学院讲授军事史课程，并任普林斯顿大学高级研究院研究员和瓦萨尔学院客座教授，是当代最优秀的军事史家之一。著有A History of Warfare, The Second World War, The Face of Battle, The Mask of Command, Battle at Sea等。

约翰•基根，伦敦《每日电讯报》防务主编，英国皇家文学学会会员，1998年BBC瑞思讲演人（Reith Lecturer），多年在英国桑霍斯特皇家军事学院讲授军事史课程，并任普林斯顿大学高级研究院研究员和瓦萨尔学院客座教授，是当代最优秀的军事史家之一。著有A History of Warfare, The Second World War, The Face of Battle, The Mask of Command, Battle at Sea等。

It will soon be close to a century since the outbreak of the First World War, yet as military historian Hew Strachan argues in this brilliant and authoritative one-volume history, the legacy of the "war to end all wars" is with us still. Written in crisp, compelling prose and enlivened with vivid photographs—including early color photographs— The First World War re-creates...(展开全部)

Hew Strachan is one of the world's foremost experts on the Great War of 1914-18. His ongoing three-volume history of the conflict, the first of which was published in 2001, is likely to become the standard academic reference work: Max Hastings called it 'one of the most impressive books of modern history in a generation', while Richard Holmes hailed it as a 'towering achievemen...(展开全部)