In December 1950 General Matthew B. Ridgway replaced General Walton Walker as commander of the Eighth Army, and in April 1951 he succeeded Douglas MacArthur as supreme commander of the United Nations forces in Korea and supreme commander of the United States Far East Command. In this spirited book, General Ridgway describes how he took a dispirited army and rebuilt it in a few ...(展开全部)

Drawing on recently declassified documents and extensive interviews with Soviet and American policy-makers, among them several important figures speaking for public record for the first time, Ned Lebow and Janice Stein cast new light on the effect of nuclear threats in two of the tensest moments of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the confrontations arising ou...(展开全部)

Drawing on recently declassified documents and extensive interviews with Soviet and American policy-makers, among them several important figures speaking for public record for the first time, Ned Lebow and Janice Stein cast new light on the effect of nuclear threats in two of the tensest moments of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the confrontations arising ou...(展开全部)

尼·奥斯特洛夫斯基（1904-1936），苏联作家。出生在乌克兰一个贫困的工人家庭，11岁便开始当童工。1919年加入共青团，随即参加国内战争。1923年到1924年担任乌克兰边境地区共青团的领导工作，1924年加入共产党。由于他长期参加艰苦斗争，健康受到严重损害，到1927年，健康情况急剧恶化，但他毫不屈服，以惊人的毅力同病魔作斗争。同年底，他着手创作一篇关于科托夫斯基师团的“历史抒情英雄故事”（即《暴风雨所诞生的》）。不幸的是，唯一一份手稿在寄给朋友们审读时被邮局弄丢了。这一残酷的打击并没有挫败他的坚强意志，反而使他更加顽强地同疾病作斗争。 1929年，他全身瘫痪，双目失明。1930年，他用自己的战斗经历作素材，以顽强的意志开始创作长篇小说《钢铁是怎样炼成的》。小说获得了巨大成功，受到同时代人的真诚而热烈的称赞。1934年，奥斯特洛夫斯基被吸收为...(展开全部)

尼·奥斯特洛夫斯基（1904-1936），苏联作家。出生在乌克兰一个贫困的工人家庭，11岁便开始当童工。1919年加入共青团，随即参加国内战争。1923年到1924年担任乌克兰边境地区共青团的领导工作，1924年加入共产党。由于他长期参加艰苦斗争，健康受到严重损害，到1927年，健康情况急剧恶化，但他毫不屈服，以惊人的毅力同病魔作斗争。同年底，他着手创作一篇关于科托夫斯基师团的“历史抒情英雄故事”（即《暴风雨所诞生的》）。不幸的是，唯一一份手稿在寄给朋友们审读时被邮局弄丢了。这一残酷的打击并没有挫败他的坚强意志，反而使他更加顽强地同疾病作斗争。 1929年，他全身瘫痪，双目失明。1930年，他用自己的战斗经历作素材，以顽强的意志开始创作长篇小说《钢铁是怎样炼成的》。小说获得了巨大成功，受到同时代人的真诚而热烈的称赞。1934年，奥斯特洛夫斯基被吸收为...(展开全部)

The truth is, warfare shouldn't happen - and most of the time it doesn't. Around the world there are millions of hostile rivalries at any given moment and yet only a tiny fraction erupt into prolonged fighting. Most books on conflict forget this. So in those rare instances of war, what broke down and kept the sides from compromise? From unchecked interests and intangible incent...(展开全部)

An acclaimed expert on violence and seasoned peacebuilder explains the five reasons why conflict (rarely) blooms into war, and how to interrupt that deadly process. It's easy to overlook the underlying strategic forces of war, to see it solely as a series of errors, accidents, and emotions gone awry. It's also easy to forget that war shouldn't happen--and most of the time it do...(展开全部)

The truth is, warfare shouldn't happen - and most of the time it doesn't. Around the world there are millions of hostile rivalries at any given moment and yet only a tiny fraction erupt into prolonged fighting. Most books on conflict forget this. So in those rare instances of war, what broke down and kept the sides from compromise? From unchecked interests and intangible incent...(展开全部)