The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 violently changed the course of European History. Alarmed by Bismarck's territorial ambitions and the Prussian army's crushing defeats of Denmark in 1864 and Austria in 1866, French Emperor Napoleon III vowed to bring Prussia to heel. Digging into many European and American archives for the first time, Geoffrey Wawro's The Franco-Prussian Wa...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 杰弗里·瓦夫罗（Geoffrey Wawro），毕业于耶鲁大学。目前担任北德州大学军事史中心主任，主攻战略研究。著有《普奥战争》（The Austro-Prussian War）、《欧洲的战争与社会，1792-1914》（War and Society in Europe, 1792-1914）、《哈布斯堡的灭亡》（A Mad Catastrophe）等。他所获奖项众多，其中就包括了奥地利文化研究院的大奖以及军事历史学会的蒙卡多大奖。他还是历史频道“精装历史”节目的主持人，这档每周访谈节目的受访者均是一流史学家、政治家和新闻人士。 【译者简介】 林国荣，哲学博士。

【作者简介】 杰弗里·瓦夫罗（Geoffrey Wawro），毕业于耶鲁大学。目前担任北德州大学军事史中心主任，主攻战略研究。著有《普奥战争》（The Austro-Prussian War）、《欧洲的战争与社会，1792-1914》（War and Society in Europe, 1792-1914）、《哈布斯堡的灭亡》（A Mad Catastrophe）等。他所获奖项众多，其中就包括了奥地利文化研究院的大奖以及军事历史学会的蒙卡多大奖。他还是历史频道“精装历史”节目的主持人，这档每周访谈节目的受访者均是一流史学家、政治家和新闻人士。 【译者简介】 林国荣，哲学博士。

The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 violently changed the course of European History. Alarmed by Bismarck's territorial ambitions and the Prussian army's crushing defeats of Denmark in 1864 and Austria in 1866, French Emperor Napoleon III vowed to bring Prussia to heel. Digging into many European and American archives for the first time, Geoffrey Wawro's The Franco-Prussian Wa...(展开全部)

When Rin aced the Keju, the Empire-wide test to find the most talented youth to learn at the Academies, it was a shock to everyone: to the test officials, who couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass without cheating; to Rin’s guardians, who believed they’d finally be able to marry her off and further their criminal enterprise; and to Rin herself, who real...(展开全部)

World War Two left two compelling, indelible images that colored the decades to come: the immense force of the Soviet Union's Red Army and the horrific devastation wrought by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima/Nagasaki. For the next half-century, the great powers prepared themselves for another, deadlier international conflagration...one that never happened. Politicians and strate...(展开全部)

Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero, drafted into an elite military unit to fight in a distant interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy. Mandella will perform his duties and, as he survives, rise through the ranks, but his greatest test will come when he returns to Earth. Because of the effects of relativity, every time he comes home afte...(展开全部)

The monumental Hugo and Nebula award winning SF classic-- Featuring a new introduction by John Scalzi The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand--despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away. A reluctant conscript drafted into an elite Military unit, Private William Mandella has been propelle...(展开全部)

The headmaster of Trinity College asks Archie Costello, the leader of the Vigils, a secret society that rules the school, to help with the selling of 20,000 boxes of chocolates in the annual fund-raising effort. Archie sees the chance of adding to his power - he is the Assigner, handing out to the boys tasks to be performed if they are to survive in the school. Freshman, Jerry ...(展开全部)