NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The extraordinary story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower One of America’s preeminent military historians, James D. Hornfischer has written his most expansive and ambitious book to date. Drawing on new primary sources a...(展开全部)

沃尔多·海因里希斯 Waldo Heinrichs 美国圣地亚哥州立大学德怀特·E.斯坦福(Dwight E.Stanford )教席教授( 荣休 )。二战期间他作为步兵服役于美国陆军第86师。第86师是二战时美国被派往欧洲的最后两个师中的一个，也是第一个被部署到太平洋抵抗日本入侵的军队。 马克·加利基奥 Marc Gallicchio 美国维拉诺瓦大学历史系教授。

沃尔多·海因里希斯 Waldo Heinrichs 美国圣地亚哥州立大学德怀特·E.斯坦福(Dwight E.Stanford )教席教授( 荣休 )。二战期间他作为步兵服役于美国陆军第86师。第86师是二战时美国被派往欧洲的最后两个师中的一个，也是第一个被部署到太平洋抵抗日本入侵的军队。 马克·加利基奥 Marc Gallicchio 美国维拉诺瓦大学历史系教授。

伊恩·托尔（Ian W. Toll），美国历史作家、海军历史学者。他先后毕业于乔治敦大学和哈佛大学，曾短暂进入政界，之后又投身金融行业，在多家银行担任分析师。但他一直对从事历史研究的梦想念念不忘，2002年开始专心从事写作。 2006年，托尔以一部《六舰》一鸣惊人，赢得广泛赞誉，次年荣获海军史领域的重磅奖项塞缪尔·埃利奥特·莫里森奖和威廉·科尔比奖，还入选《纽约时报》编辑选择奖。此后他又撰写了“太平洋战争三部曲”，即《燃烧的大洋》《征服的怒潮》《诸神的黄昏》，在学者、军迷和历史爱好者群体中均广受好评。 托尔在《纽约时报》《华盛顿邮报》《洛杉矶时报》《波士顿环球报》等知名报刊上发表过大量文章，长期为《纽约时报书评》供稿。他还担任美国国家人文基金会评审委员，美国国务院文化大使，以及海军战争学院讲师，在“海权之父”马汉撰写成名作时任职的岗位上为美国海军培养...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 When a widow tries to collect on her inheritance, her late husband's family is unpleasantly surprised. They're even more horrified by the news that this lovely stranger may be a bigamist. Now murder shakes the family tree, and it's time for Hercule Poirot to investigate.

From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives—an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the ...(展开全部)

The nineteenth century saw several major innovations in naval warfare. Reliable steam engines made it so that ships no longer depended on the wind and could maneuver more freely. At the same time, new explosive shells were developed, replacing cannonballs, and no wooden ship could withstand them. In response to these shells, a new class of self-propelled, armored "ironclads" wa...(展开全部)

The final volume in Richard J. Evans’s masterly trilogy on the history of Nazi Germany traces the rise and fall of German military might, the mobilization of a “people’s community” to serve a war of conquest, and Hitler’s campaign of racial subjugation and genocide Already hailed as “a masterpiece” (William Grimes in The New York Times ) and “the most comprehensive history…...(展开全部)

An absorbing, revelatory, and definitive account of one of the greatest tragedies in human history Adroitly blending narrative, description, and analysis, Richard J. Evans portrays a society rushing headlong to self-destruction and taking much of Europe with it. Interweaving a broad narrative of the war's progress from a wide range of people, Evans reveals the dynamics of a...(展开全部)