A sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the Middle East from an award-winning journalist who has covered the region for over thirty years, The Great War for Civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the Algerian Civil War to the Iranian Revolution; from the American hostage crisis in Beirut to the Iran-Iraq War; from ...(展开全部)

In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region’s crucial role in the conflict. A sweeping narrative of battles and political intrigue from Gallipoli to Arabia, The Fall of the Ottomans is essential reading for anyone seekin...(展开全部)

In 1914 the Ottoman Empire was depleted of men and resources after years of war against Balkan nationalist and Italian forces. But in the aftermath of the assassination in Sarajevo, the powers of Europe were sliding inexorably toward war, and not even the Middle East could escape the vast and enduring consequences of one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. The G...(展开全部)

On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip ofMount Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a young Oxford scholar of twenty-two with little previous mountaineering experience. Neither of them returned. In this magisterial work of history and adventure, based...(展开全部)

The definitive story of the British adventurers who survived the trenches of World War I and went on to risk their lives climbing Mount Everest. On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a twenty-two-year-old Oxford s...(展开全部)

The Imjin War (1592–1598) was a grueling conflict that wreaked havoc on the towns and villages of the Korean Peninsula. The involvement of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean forces, not to mention the regional scope of the war, was the largest the world had seen, and the memory dominated East Asian memory until World War II. Despite massive regional realignments, Korea's Chosôn Dyna...(展开全部)

A monumental work of history, biography and adventure - the First World War, Mallory and Mount Everest 'The price of life is death' For Mallory, as for all of his generation, death was but 'a frail barrier that men crossed, smiling and gallant, every day'. As climbers they accepted a degree of risk unimaginable before the war. What mattered now was how one lived, and the moment...(展开全部)

作者简介 尼古拉斯·莫顿(Nicholas Morton ) 英国诺丁汉特伦特大学艺术与人文学院副教授，其研究重点为 10~14 世纪十字军运动和中世纪近东的历史，并就这些主题发表了大量文章。他最新出版的著作是 7eMongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the他还是劳特里Medieval Near East (Basic Books).奇出版社三套世界史相关丛书的主编之一。 译者简介 谭琦 哈尔滨理工大学语言文学硕士，译有《十字军:一部争夺圣地的史诗》《诅咒之塔》《拜占庭的失落之城》《大围攻:马耳他1565》

詹姆斯·巴尔(James Barr)，著名的中东史学者，著有《瓜分沙洲》(A Lineinthe Sand,中译本由社会科学文献出版社于2018年出版)。他曾在牛津大学圣安东尼学院做访问学者，担任过《每日电讯报》政治与城市话题撰稿人，还曾在金融服务行业、英国驻法国大使馆工作。他现居伦敦，是全职作家。