Georges Duby, one of this century's great medieval historians,has brought to life with exceptional brilliance and imaginationWilliam Marshal, adviser to the Plantagenets, knightextraordinaire, the flower of chivalry. A marvel of historicalreconstruction, William Marshal is based on a biographical poemwritten in the thirteenth century, and offers an evocation ofchivalric life -- the contests and tournaments, the rites of war,the daily details of medieval existence -- unlike any we have everseen. An enchanting and profoundly instructive book....Owing in signalpart to the imaginative scholarship of Georges Duby, darkness ismore and more receding from the Dark Ages." George Steiner New Yorker "A small masterpiece of its genre....It is a splendid story andProfessor Duby tells it splendidly....Duby has reconstructed aliving picture of a particular sector of society at a crucialmoment, at the brink of great change. The vividness, the intimacy,and the historical perception with which he presents his picture ofth

《沙特历史图集》是沙特建国100祝活动秘书处发行的众多出版物中的一种，力图清楚地表明，这个节日是一个科学、求知的活动。 这部图集用地图、图片和简短的文字记录了沙特在建国不同阶段的大部分史实和事件。从伊历850年，以马尼·马尼迪为首的沙特家族回到阿拉伯半岛中心的哈尼发谷地起，到建设迪里耶，使之成为沙特王国。伊历1157年到伊历1233年的第二沙特王国。伊历1240年到伊历1309年为建立第三沙特王国所发生的大事件。此外，还介绍了在诸位国王的努力下取得的突出成就。 （本书地图翻译程度较低，仅有说明文字被译出）

As a senior foreign correspondent for The Times ofLondon, Janine di Giovanni was a firsthand witness to the brutaland protracted break-up of Yugoslavia. With unflinchingsensitivity, Madness Visible follows the arc of the wars inthe Balkans through the experience of those caught up in them:soldiers numbed by the atrocities they commit, women driven todespair by their life in paramilitary rape camps, civilians (diGiovanni among them) caught in bombing raids of uncertain origin,babies murdered in hate-induced rage. Di Giovanni’s searing memoir examines the turmoil of the Balkansin acute detail, and uncovers the motives of the leaders whocreated hell on earth; it raises challenging questions about ethnicconflict and the responsibilities of foreign governments in timesof mass murder. Perceptive and compelling, this unique work ofreportage from the physical and psychological front lines makes themadness of war wholly visible.

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“A richly detailed and deeply researched account.” —TheWashington Post “Kohl’s journalist touch…brings a human element to the ratherinhuman stories that came out of the trials…The Witness House is animportant reminder of how, at the end of war, we still have to eatat the same table. Finding a civil way to do so is perhaps the keyto healing.” —NPR.org “Richly detailed and deeply researched… [The Witness House is] a360-degree view of this critical time in history.” —The DenverPost “Drawing on interviews, primary source materials, and recentlydisclosed documents, Kohl introduces a cast of characters who, if not actually realparticipants in the events described, would seem to be the productof a work of fiction.” —Jewish Book World “The history of World War II is so rich in character and detailthat fiction presented alongside often pales in comparison, andthis is especially true for a story so nuanced and taut as Kohlpresents in The Witness House. The cast of characters, setting,

In the winter of 1979 Nabeel Yasin, Iraq's most famous youngpoet, gathered together a handful of belongings and fled Iraq withhis wife and son. Life in Baghdad had become intolerable. Silencedby a series of brutal beatings at the hands of the Ba'ath Party'sSecret Police and declared an “enemy of the state,” he facedcertain death if he stayed. Nabeel had grown up in the late 1950s and early '60s in a largeand loving family, amid the domestic drama typical of Iraq's newmiddle class, with his mother Sabria working as a seamstress tosend all of her seven children to college. As his story unfolds,Nabeel meets his future wife and finds his poetic voice while he isa student. But Saddam's rise to power ushers in a new era ofrepression, imprisonment and betrayal from which few families willescape intact. In this new climate of intimidation and randomviolence Iraqis live in fear and silence; yet Nabeel’s mother tellshim “It is your duty to write.” His poetry, a blend of myth andhistory, attacks t

Robert Carter III, thegrandson of Tidewater legend Robert “King” Carter, was born intothe highest circles of Virginia’s Colonial aristocracy. He wasneighbor and kin to the Washingtons and Lees and a friend and peerto Thomas Jefferson and George Mason. But on September 5, 1791,Carter severed his ties with this glamorous elite at the stroke ofa pen. In a document he called his Deed of Gift, Carter declaredhis intent to set free nearly five hundred slaves in the largestsingle act of liberation in the history of American slavery beforethe Emancipation Proclamation. How did Carter succeed in the very action that George Washingtonand Thomas Jefferson claimed they fervently desired but werepowerless to effect? And why has his name all but vanished from theannals of American history? In this haunting, brilliantly originalwork, Andrew Levy traces the confluence of circumstance,conviction, war, and passion that led to Carter’s extraordinaryact. At the dawn of the Revolutionary War, Carter was one of thewealt

In mid-1943 James Megellas, known as “Maggie” to his fellowparatroopers, joined the 82d Airborne Division, his new “home” forthe duration. His first taste of combat was in the rugged mountainsoutside Naples. In October 1943, when most of the 82d departed Italy to prepare forthe D-Day invasion of France, Lt. Gen. Mark Clark, the Fifth Armycommander, requested that the division’s 504th Parachute InfantryRegiment, Maggie’s outfit, stay behind for a daring new operationthat would outflank the Nazis’ stubborn defensive lines and openthe road to Rome. On 22 January 1944, Megellas and the rest of the504th landed across the beach at Anzio. Following initial success,Fifth Army’s amphibious assault, Operation Shingle, bogged down inthe face of heavy German counterattacks that threatened to drivethe Allies into the Tyrrhenian Sea. Anzio turned into a fiasco, oneof the bloodiest Allied operations of the war. Not until April werethe remnants of the regiment withdrawn and shipped to England torecover, reo

“Alaa Al Aswany is among the best writers in the Middle Easttoday, a suitable heir to the mantle worn by Naguib Mahfouz, hisgreat predecessor.” –Jay Parini, The Guardian (UK) From one of Egypt’s most acclaimed novelists, here is a vividchronicle of Egyptian society, with penetrating analysis of all themost urgent issues—economic stagnation, police brutality, poverty,the harassment of women and of the Christian minority, to name afew—that led to the stunning overthrow of the Mubarak government.Al-Aswany addresses himself to all the questions being asked withinEgypt and beyond: who will be the next president, and how will hebe chosen in a land where heretofore only simpletons, opportunistsand stooges involved themselves with elections? What role will theMuslim Brotherhood play? How can democratic reforms be effectedamong a people used to such contradictions as the religiouslyobservant policeman who commits torture? In a candid andcontroversial assessment of both the potential and

A battle is like just. The frenzy passes. Consequence remains." Such are the observations made and ill-gotten lessons learned in this fic tional autobiographical narrative of breathtaking range and power.Ross Leckie not only presents a vivid re-creation of the great strug gle o.f the Punic wars and the profoundly bloody battle for Rome,but succeeds in bringing the almost mythical figure of Hannibal to life. Introspective, educated on the Greeks, but steeped in animus for Rome, Hannibal has never been presented quite like this.

In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and SebastianJunger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventurein which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a greathistorical mystery–and make history themselves. For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was morethan a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents,braving depths that induced hallucinatory effects, navigatingthrough wreckage as perilous as a minefield, they pushed themselvesto their limits and beyond, brushing against death more than oncein the rusting hulks of sunken ships. But in the fall of 1991, not even these courageous divers wereprepared for what they found 230 feet below the surface, in thefrigid Atlantic waters sixty miles off the coast of New Jersey: aWorld War II German U-boat, its ruined interior a macabre wastelandof twisted metal, tangled wires, and human bones–all buried underdecades of accumulated sediment. No identifying marks were visible on

From the bestselling and PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author ofNetherland, a fascinating, personal, and beautifully crafted familyhistory. Joseph O'Neill's grandfathers--one Turkish, one Irish--were bothimprisoned for suspected subversion during the Second World War.The Irish grandfather, a handsome rogue from a family of smallfarmers, was an active member of the IRA. O'Neill's othergrandfather, a debonair hotelier from the tiny and threatenedTurkish Christian minority, was interned by the British inPalestine on suspicion of being an Axis spy. With intellect, compassion, and grace, O'Neill sets the storiesof these individuals against the history of the last century's mostinhuman events.

The sinking of the Dorchester in the icy waters offGreenland shortly after midnight on February 3, 1942, was one ofthe worst sea disasters of World War II. It was also the occasionof an astounding feat of heroism—and faith. As water gushed through a hole made by a German torpedo, fourchaplains—members of different faiths but linked by bonds offriendship and devotion—moved quietly among the men onboard.Preaching bravery, the chaplains distributed life jackets,including their own. In the end, these four men went down with theship, their arms linked in spiritual solidarity, their voicesraised in prayer. In this spellbinding narrative, award-winningauthor and journalist Dan Kurzman tells the story of these heroesand the faith—in God and in country—that they shared. They were about as different as four American clergymen could be.George Lansing Fox (Methodist), wounded and decorated in World WarI, loved his family and his Vermont congregation—yet he re-enlistedas soon as he heard about Pearl Harbo

When the Second World War broke out, Philipp Freiherr vonBoeselager, then 25-years-old, fought enthusiastically for Germanyas a cavalry officer. But after discovering Nazi crimes, vonBoeselager’s patriotism quickly turned to disgust, and he joined agroup of conspirators who plotted to kill Adolf Hitler and HeinrichHimmler. In this elegant but unflinching memoir, von Boeselagergives voice to the spirit of the small but determined band of menwho took a stand against the Third Reich in what culminating in thefailed “Valkyrie” plot—one of the most fascinating near misses oftwentieth-century history.

An analysis of the Civil War, drawing on letters and diariesby more than one thousand soldiers, gives voice to the personalreasons behind the war, offering insight into the ideology thatshaped both sides. Reprint. PW.

《两个世界的媒介：德国女汉学家口述实录》收录了21位德国女汉学家的口述历史。她们出生子不同的历史年代，历经了各异的时代悲欢，对时代的奔流有着独特而敏锐的感悟；她们都关注中德两国时代场景的巨变，以极具女性特色的视角铭记、解读这段历史。且让我们跟随她们的叙述，品读这一份真实、精彩而又各具特色的历史实录。

Forever a Soldier captures the personal side of war in 37extraordinary narratives that bear eloquent witness to both thelife-changing experience of battle and to the unflagging spiritthat sustained countless ordinary Americans plunged into the bloodyconflicts of the deadliest, most destructive century in humanhistory. Culled from letters, diaries, private memoirs, and oralhistories collected by the Library of Congress Veterans HistoryProject, their stories paint an unforgettable group portrait of ourcountry's armed forces. Some tell of frontline action: a doughboy's 1918 baptism of fire: abattleship gunner's grim duel with Japanese planes; a femalefighter pilot's capture by Iraqis during the Gulf War. Others evokemoments of relief and reflection, or recall deeply moving episodes:two wounded soldiers—one German, one American—clasping hands in thewordless brotherhood of pain; a POW whose faith gave him thestrength to endure torture in the notorious "Hanoi Hilton;" a GI'slifelong grief for a buddy killed o

In this classic study, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James M.McPherson deftly narrates the experience of blacks--former slavesand soldiers, preachers, visionaries, doctors, intellectuals, andcommon people--during the Civil War. Drawing on contemporaryjournalism, speeches, books, and letters, he presents an eclecticchronicle of their fears and hopes as well as their essentialcontributions to their own freedom. Through the words of theseextraordinary participants, both Northern and Southern, McPhersoncaptures African-American responses to emancipation, the shiftingattitudes toward Lincoln and the life of black soldiers in theUnion army. Above all, we are allowed to witness the dreams of adisenfranchised people eager to embrace the rights and the equalityoffered to them, finally, as citizens.

In this lively and engaging history, Stephen Puleo tells thestory of the Boston Italians from their earliest years, when alargely illiterate and impoverished people in a strange landrecreated the bonds of village and region in the cramped quartersof the North End. Focusing on this first and crucial Italianenclave in Boston, Puleo describes the experience of Italianimmigrants as they battled poverty, illiteracy, and prejudice;explains their transformation into Italian Americans during theDepression and World War II; and chronicles their rich history inBoston up to the present day.

This is the story of a small group of soldiers from the 101stAirborne Division’s fabled 502nd Infantry Regiment—a unit known as“the Black Heart Brigade.” Deployed in late 2005 to Iraq’sso-called Triangle of Death, a veritable meat grinder just south ofBaghdad, the Black Hearts found themselves in arguably thecountry’s most dangerous location at its most dangerous time. Hit by near-daily mortars, gunfire, and roadside bomb attacks,suffering from a particularly heavy death toll, and enduring achronic breakdown in leadership, members of one Black Heartplatoon—1st Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion—descended, overtheir year-long tour of duty, into a tailspin of poor discipline,substance abuse, and brutality. Four 1st Platoon soldiers would perpetrate one of the mostheinous war crimes U.S. forces have committed during the IraqWar—the rape of a fourteen-year-old Iraqi girl and the cold-bloodedexecution of her and her family. Three other 1st Platoon soldierswould be overrun at