From the #1 bestselling author of Fiasco and The Gamble , an epic history of the decline of American military leadership from World War II to Iraq History has been kind to the American generals of World War II—Marshall, Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley—and less kind to the generals of the wars that followed. In The Generals , Thomas E. Ricks sets out to explain why that i...(展开全部)

In this book, McElvenny offers a concise history of modern linguistics from its emergence in the early nineteenth century up to the end of World War II. Written as a collective biography of the field, it concentrates on the interaction between the leading figures of linguistics, their controversies, and the role of the social and political context in shaping their ideas and met...(展开全部)

Describes the complete extent of Nazi spying during World War II, tells the stories of Nazi spies in the U.S., and examines German attempts to get information about Operation Overlord

Many books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with the nature of command itself, and to trace its development over two thousand years from ancient Greece to Vietnam. It treats historically the whole variety of problems involved in commanding armies, including staff organization and administration, communic...(展开全部)

Tad Szulc was a journalist, foreign policy analyst and biographer. The author of more than 25 books, he was the winner of the Overseas Press Club Award and the Maria Moors Cabot Award for coverage of Latin America and was awarded the Legion d’Honneur. Born in Warsaw in 1925, he went to the United States following World War 2 and became a foreign correspondent for the New York T...(展开全部)

Looking Modern: East Asian Visual Culture from Treaty Ports to World War II examines multiple dimensions of visual modernity in East Asia from the nineteenth century through the early decades of the twentieth. The papers were drawn from two symposia held at the Center for the Art of East Asia in the Department of Art History, the University of Chicago, which brought out importa...(展开全部)

克里斯蒂·皮奇切罗（Christy Pichichero），乔治梅森大学历史和艺术史专业教授，人文与社会科学学院主任。主要研究领域为近代法国与法兰西第一帝国的文学和文化。现任法国历史研究学会执行委员会委员。本书入选奥斯卡·肯舒尔图书奖最终名单。 李海峰，四川外国语大学翻译学院副教授，硕士生导师。曾赴英国爱丁堡大学与南安普敦大学进行学术访问和交流。在《中国翻译》《外国语文》《翻译教学与研究》等学术期刊发表论文10余篇，编著教材4部。主持中华学术外译项目1项，参与2项。在帕尔格雷夫·麦克米伦出版社（Palgrave Macmillan）、世界科学出版社（World Scientific）、北京大学出版社和外语教学与研究出版社等国内外著名出版社出版学术译著6部。

莫里·古皮提尔·曼宁 Molly Guptill Manning，身兼作者、律师双职，著述颇丰，著有《以法莲市场的神话》(THE MYTH OF EPHRAIM TUTT) 等，作品多见于《哥伦比亚法律和艺术》(THE COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF LAW A ND THE ARTS) 等诸多高端刊物之中。