林恩·H·尼古拉斯（Lynn H. Nicholas）生于美国康涅狄格州新伦敦，先后求学于美国、英国和西班牙，在牛津大学获得学士学位。返回美国后，她在美国国家艺术馆供职数年。在她于20世纪80年代早期旅居比利时时，她开始本书的研究工作。本书是尼古拉斯的处女作，她的作品还包括《残酷世界：纳粹网络里的欧洲儿童》（Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web，2005）。尼古拉斯曾获法国“荣誉军团勋章”和波兰“波兰之友”称号。她还担任在艺术品返还审判和美国国会中的专家证人。

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The cast of characters includes Hitler and Goering, Gertrude Stein and Marc Chagall--not to mention works by artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Pablo Picasso. And the story told in this superbly researched and suspenseful book is that of the Third Reich's war on European culture and the Allies' desperate effort to preserve it. F...(展开全部)

林恩·H·尼古拉斯（Lynn H. Nicholas）生于美国康涅狄格州新伦敦，先后求学于美国、英国和西班牙，在牛津大学获得学士学位。返回美国后，她在美国国家艺术馆供职数年。在她于20世纪80年代早期旅居比利时时，她开始本书的研究工作。本书是尼古拉斯的处女作，她的作品还包括《残酷世界：纳粹网络里的欧洲儿童》（Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web，2005）。尼古拉斯曾获法国“荣誉军团勋章”和波兰“波兰之友”称号。她还担任在艺术品返还审判和美国国会中的专家证人。

One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject accessible to millions, A.J.P. Taylor caused a storm of outrage with this scandalous bestseller. Debunking what were accepted truths about the Second World War, he argued provocatively that Hitler did not set out to cause the war as part of an evil master plan, but blundered into...(展开全部)

One of the most popular and controversial historians of the twentieth century, who made his subject accessible to millions, A.J.P. Taylor caused a storm of outrage with this scandalous bestseller. Debunking what were accepted truths about the Second World War, he argued provocatively that Hitler did not set out to cause the war as part of an evil master plan, but blundered into...(展开全部)

In this famous book Philip Bell examines the European origins of the Second World War from three different angles: first, he sets out the various explanations which have been offered for the war, and discusses the historiographical debates to which they have given rise; he then analyses the major underlying forces - ideological, economic and strategic - that were at work in Eur...(展开全部)

P.M.H.贝尔（P.M.H.Bell），英国欧洲近现代史专家，利物浦大学荣誉高级教席享有者，长于欧洲国际关系史研究。著有《法国与英国（1900—1940）：协约与疏离》、《法国与英国（1940—1994）：长分裂》以及《第二次世界大战的起源：欧洲战场》。其中《第二次世界大战的起源》自1986年首版后多次再版，是其重要代表作。 杨光海，解放军国际关系学院国际战略系教授，国家安全战略研究中心主任。著有《国际安全制度及其在东亚的实践》，参与翻译《二十世纪世界史》。 丁山，解放军国际关系学院副教授。

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?

From one of the world's most distinguished historians, a magisterial new reckoning with Hitler's rise to power and the collapse of civilization in Nazi Germany. In 1900 Germany was the most progressive and dynamic nation in Europe, the only country whose rapid technological and social growth and change challenged that of the United States. Its political culture was less auth...(展开全部)

Richard Evans' brilliant book unfolds perhaps the single most important story of the 20th century: how a stable and modern country in less than a single lifetime led Europe into moral, physical and cultural ruin and despair. A terrible story not least because there were so many other ways in which Germany's history could have been played out. With authority, skill and compassio...(展开全部)