Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly -- or have been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear en...(展开全部)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award TWENTY-FIVE YEARS after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the seminal and complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. F...(展开全部)

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award TWENTY-FIVE YEARS after its initial publication, The Making of the Atomic Bomb remains the seminal and complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. F...(展开全部)

尼尔·巴斯科姆 (Neal Bascomb，1971—) 生于美国科罗拉多州，毕业于迈阿密大学，获经济学和英国文学双学位。 毕业后，在欧洲各国担任记者，曾为《纽约时报》、《华尔街日报》和《洛杉矶时报》撰稿，并在圣马丁出版社担任编辑。2000 年，他开始全职写作，以通俗历史和纪实小说为主，是二战主题的知名演讲者。 他的作品《打造摩天大楼》(Higher)获得巴诺书店新进作家奖。 巴斯科姆创作力旺盛，还著有《红色兵变》(Red Mutiny)、《猎杀艾希曼》(Hunting Eichmann)、《逃亡者》(The Escape Artists)等多部以二战为题材的纪实小说。尼尔·巴斯科姆的作品多次登上畅销书榜，荣获多个国家奖项，并已在20多个国家出版。

In The Vanquished, a highly original and gripping work of history, Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War. In large part it was not the fighting on the Western Front that proved so ruinous to Europe's future, but the devastating aftermath, as countries on both sides of the original conflict were savaged by revolutions, pogroms, mass ...(展开全部)

In The Vanquished, a highly original and gripping work of history, Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War. In large part it was not the fighting on the Western Front that proved so ruinous to Europe's future, but the devastating aftermath, as countries on both sides of the original conflict were savaged by revolutions, pogroms, mass ...(展开全部)

约翰•斯卡尔齐（John Scalzi） 美国当红科幻作家，美国科幻与奇幻作家协会前会长。三次获得雨果奖，十次入围。2005年，他以《老人的战争》成名，获得2006年约翰•W.坎贝尔优秀新人奖。2013年，他凭借《红衫》包揽雨果奖、轨迹奖两项大奖。 斯卡尔齐深受罗伯特·海因莱因、奥森·斯科特·卡德等人的影响，题材多以惊险刺激的军事科幻为主，擅长运用对话推动情节发展，人物风格各异，语言辛辣幽默。其作品已被翻译成二十多种语言，深受各国读者的欢迎。 “老人的战争”六部曲是斯卡尔齐的代表作，该系列一共五次入围雨果奖、轨迹奖，并多次获得日本星云赏、以色列格芬奖等国际大奖。《万物的终结》是“老人的战争”六部曲的终结篇。历经十年创作的“老人的战争”六部曲以及“老屁帮”成员们的太空冒险故事在本书中迎来大结局。

A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan—a crucial turning point in World War II and geopolitical history—with you-are-there immediacy by the New York Times bestselling author of Ike's Bluff and Sea of Thunder. “A terrifying, heartbreaking account of three men under unimaginable pressure . . . I challenge you not to read this ...(展开全部)

【作者简介】 多米尼克·利芬（Dominic Lieven），英国著名历史学家。毕业于剑桥大学历史系，现为剑桥大学三一学院高级研究员、英国学术院院士、伦敦政治经济学院荣休教授。他的《俄国与拿破仑的决战》（2015 年由甲骨文推出中文版）获2009 年沃尔夫森历史奖、2009 年拿破仑基金会拿破仑奖等诸多荣誉。 【译者简介】 苏然，法律从业者，先后就读于南开大学、中国政法大学，现为乔治城大学在读法学博士，译有《拿破仑大帝》。 王橙，现于法国攻读法国历史，译有《勇士中的勇士，拿破仑最富争议的元帅——米歇尔·奈伊传》、《拿破仑的第一骑兵——若阿基姆·缪拉传》、《拿破仑时代》（合译），并发表过《决战瓦夫尔》等文章。

TLS, FINANCIAL TIMES and BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 'This narrative of continent-wide chaos makes it easier to understand why order came to seem a supremely desirable objective in 1930s Europe, trumping freedom' Max Hastings, The Sunday Times 'Important and timely... obliges us to reconsider a period and a battlefront that has too often been neglected by histor...(展开全部)