[英]理查德·奥弗里（Richard Overy），艾克赛特大学历史学教授。在20世纪战争史与独裁政权研究领域已撰写超过25本著作，其中包括饱受赞誉的《同盟国为何胜利》（Why the Allies Won, 1995），以及获奖著作《独裁者们：希特勒的德国与斯大林的俄罗斯》（The Dictators: Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia，2004）。不列颠学会（British Academy）会员，欧洲科学与艺术学院（European Academy of Sciences and Arts）院士。他新的一本著作题为《轰炸战争：欧洲1939-1945》（The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945，2013），该书于2014年获坎迪尔历史著作奖（Cundill Prize award f...(展开全部)

The Oxford Illustrated History of the World encompasses the whole span of human history. It brings together some of the world's leading historians, under the expert guidance of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, to tell the 200,000-year story of our world, from the emergence of homo sapiens through to the twenty-first century: the environmental convulsions; the interplay of ideas (good ...(展开全部)

约翰·平洛特(John Pimlott)博十为英国桑德赫斯特(sandhut)皇家军事学院(Royal Military Academy)战争学系的系主任。他对于20世纪的战争，特别是二次大战的研究声誉卓菩。他的专业领域包括武器系统和各大、小战役(从专题性的1945年攻占雷马根铁桥的细节到越战的总史)，也编纂过范围宏大的战争史。

Spanning two thousand years of stirring religious, cultural and political events, this lavishly illustrated volume provides the most authoritative and accessible history of Christianity ever published for the general reader. The impact of Christianity on world civilization is almost incalculable, and in exploring this rich heritage, nineteen leading scholars range from...(展开全部)

Spanning two thousand years of stirring religious, cultural and political events, this lavishly illustrated volume provides the most authoritative and accessible history of Christianity ever published for the general reader. The impact of Christianity on world civilization is almost incalculable, and in exploring this rich heritage, nineteen leading scholars range from...(展开全部)

主编 詹姆斯·拉文(JamesRaven)，英国国家学术院院士，剑桥大学莫德林学院院士，创桥书籍项目信托基金会主任，埃塞克斯大学现代史荣休教授。 译者 李家真，川人，一九七二年生，曾任《中国文学》执行主编及《英语学习》副主编。写有大量随笔，译有《泰戈尔英文诗集全集》《纪伯伦诗集》《丘吉尔传》《福尔摩斯探案全集》《王尔德小说童话全集》《培根随笔全集》《瓦尔登湖》《两河一周》《鳕鱼海岬》《缅因森林》《呆厮国志》《论人》《论批评·云鬓劫》等作品。

Nine hundred years ago, at a church council in Clermont, Pope Urban II delivered an impassioned sermon, calling upon Frankish knights to vow to march to the East to free Christians from the yoke of Islamic rule and to liberate the tomb of Christ, the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, from Muslim control. Thus began the Crusades: the bloody and grueling battles pitched between Europe...(展开全部)

乔纳森·莱利-史密斯 Jonathan Riley-Smith 剑桥大学教会史教授，曾任教于圣安德鲁斯大学，剑桥大学女王学院、伊曼纽尔学院，伦敦大学皇家霍洛威学院。他是十字军与东部拉丁研究协会的创始人，将自己完整的学术生涯都奉献给了对十字军史的研究，他的学术成果极大地推动了后续十字军史研究的发展，她去世后被同僚誉为“全球首屈一指的十字军史学家”。

Nine hundred years ago, at a church council in Clermont, Pope Urban II delivered an impassioned sermon, calling upon Frankish knights to vow to march to the East to free Christians from the yoke of Islamic rule and to liberate the tomb of Christ, the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, from Muslim control. Thus began the Crusades: the bloody and grueling battles pitched between Europe...(展开全部)

Nine hundred years ago, at a church council in Clermont, Pope Urban II delivered an impassioned sermon, calling upon Frankish knights to vow to march to the East to free Christians from the yoke of Islamic rule and to liberate the tomb of Christ, the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, from Muslim control. Thus began the Crusades: the bloody and grueling battles pitched between Europe...(展开全部)