Following "Rivers of Gold" and "The Golden Empire "and" "building on five centuries of scholarship, "World Without End "is the epic conclusion of an unprecedented three-volume history of the Spanish Empire from one of the most productive and wide-ranging historians of modern times ("The New York Times Book Review"). The legacy of imperial Spain was shaped by many hands. But the...(展开全部)

休•托马斯 Hugh Thomas 英国历史学家，毕业于剑桥大学王后学院和索邦大学。著有多部历史类专著，包括《西班牙内战》《苏伊士运河事件》《未完成的世界史》《武装对峙》《征服：蒙特祖玛、科尔特斯与旧墨西哥的陨落》《奴隶贸易》以及“西班牙三部曲”（《黄金之河》《黄金时代》《无止境的世界》）等，其中《西班牙内战》获“毛姆文学奖”。1966至1976年在英国雷丁大学任教；1979至1991年在伦敦政策研究中心担任首席官员；2008年被授予艺术与文学勋章（法国政府文化部设立），并获“加巴龙奖”；2009年荣获“卡沃尔•谢列尔奖”“薄伽丘奖”及意大利“诺尼诺文学奖”。1981年，托马斯被授予终身贵族身份，成为斯温纳顿的托马斯勋爵。

Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most-anticipated sequel of the year, World Without End. In 1989 Ken Follett astonished the literary world with The Pillars of the Earth, a sweeping epic novel set in twelf...(展开全部)

Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most anticipated sequel of the year-World Without End.

Ken Follett has 90 million readers worldwide. The Pillars of the Earth is his bestselling book of all time. Now, eighteen years after the publication of The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett has written the most anticipated sequel of the year-World Without End.

As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set about creating the first long-range maritime empire. In an astonishing blit...(展开全部)

‘The sea without end is Portuguese.’ Fernando Pessoa In 1497, Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope and became the first European to sail to India. This feat came off the back of sixty years of coherent effort by the Portuguese to find a way out of the Atlantic Ocean. Then they set about conquering the world. As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the...(展开全部)

A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It was the first empire the world had ever seen. Here, historian Eckart Frahm tells the epic story of Assyria and its formative role in global history. Assyria’s wide-ranging conquests...(展开全部)

In 480 B.C., Xerxes, the King of Persia, led an invasion of mainland Greece. Its success should have been a formality. For seventy years, victory—rapid, spectacular victory—had seemed the birthright of the Persian Empire. In the space of a single generation, they had swept across the Near East, shattering ancient kingdoms, storming famous cities, putting together an empire whic...(展开全部)

汤姆·霍兰（Tom Holland）英国畅销历史作家，尤其擅长古典历史文学写作。他曾就读于剑桥大学，取得了英语、拉丁语两科一等荣誉学位。 汤姆·霍兰著有多部畅销历史作品，他的代表作《卢比孔河》与《波斯战火》出版后，被《星期日泰晤士报》《每日电讯报》《独立报》《卫报》《观察家报》等多家媒体评选为年度最佳图书，《卢比孔河》被授予赫塞尔—蒂尔特曼历史学奖，并被提名塞缪尔·约翰逊奖，《波斯战火》被授予“朗西曼奖”。 汤姆·霍兰为英国广播公司第4频道改编过《荷马》《希罗多德》《修昔底德》《维吉尔》等历史节目，为“企鹅古典系列”翻译过希罗多德《历史》。他曾担任英国作家协会主席，目前是英国古典协会委员。