This is a rich and broadranging account of the Asia-Pacific campaigns of WWII. Drawing on recently released documents in US and British archives, Douglas Ford explores why the belligerents in the Pacific war fought the way that they did. This book focuses not only on the battlefield level, but also provides a perspective from the military high command, government, and non-comba...(展开全部)

Ho-fung Hung, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland

Ho-fung Hung, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland

Professor Iriye analyses the origins of the 1941 conflict against the background of international relations in the preceding decade in order to answer the key question: Why did Japan decide to go to war against so formidable a combination of powers?

For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievich has been the memory and conscience of the twentieth century. When the Swedish Academy awarded her the Nobel Prize, it cited her invention of “a new kind of literary genre,” describing her work as “a history of emotions . . . a history of the soul.” In The Unwomanly Face of War, Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet ...(展开全部)

让·洛佩兹，法国杂志《战争与历史》的创刊者及主编，曾出版数本讲述苏德战线的著作，如《朱可夫——打败希特勒的人》等等。 樊尚·贝尔纳，知名军事史专家，为众多杂志撰稿超过十五年，已出版十几本著作，包括李将军和格兰特将军的知名传记。 尼古拉·奥宾，第二次世界大战的专家，为许多军事历史杂志撰稿。曾出版《通往自由的道路：美国在法国和德国的后勤，1944-1945》。 尼古拉·吉耶拉，平面设计师，曾从事广告传媒业，现专攻数据视觉化领域。目前还从事数据设计教育。