The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, the cover-up, and how one American Army doctor’s discovery led to the development of the first drug to combat cancer, known today as chemotherapy. On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civili...(展开全部)

The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, the cover-up, and how one American Army doctor’s discovery led to the development of the first drug to combat cancer, known today as chemotherapy. On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civili...(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)

In six volumes: 1. The Gathering Storm (1948) 2. Their Finest Hour (1949) 3. The Grand Alliance (1950) 4. The Hinge of Fate (1950) 5. Closing the Ring (1951) 6. Triumph and Tragedy (1953)

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。

Praised as “the best military historian of our generation” by Tom Clancy, John Keegan here reconsiders his masterful study of World War II, The Second World War, with a new foreword. Keegan examines each theater of the war, focusing on five crucial battles and offering new insights into the distinctive methods and motivations of modern warfare. In eloquent, perceptive analyses ...(展开全部)

In this history of World War II, the author explores both the technical and the human impact of the conflict. The text concentrates on five crucial battles with the aim of illuminating the war as a whole: Crete, Midway, Falaise, Berlin and Okinawa.