《唐风吹拂撒马尔罕:粟特艺术与中国、波斯、印度、拜占庭》是作者康马泰结合主持中亚布哈拉古城考古的挖掘实践及多年研究的心血之作。全书分为四卷——《粟特艺术与中国》《粟特艺术与波斯》《粟特艺术与印度》《粟特艺术与拜占庭》，关于撒马尔罕大使厅壁画上的唐代端午节，中国北朝墓葬中的粟特艺术，粟特信仰与佛教、印度教神祇的关系等，书中都有精彩论述。

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《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）

《格瓦拉日记》是格瓦拉以古巴现实，文化，特性和政治现实为基础而慢慢写就的手资料。虽然这些在时间写下的文字只是主观而不完整的记述，无法展现那段历史的全景，但切对诸多历史事件和历史人物的描写，却无比真实的反映出他在古巴人民争取自由的斗争中所肩负的责任和付出的努力。

From Midnight to Dawn presents compelling portraitsof the men and women who established the Underground Railroad andtraveled it to find new lives in Canada. Evoking the turmoil andcontroversies of the time, Tobin illuminates the historic eventsthat forever connected American and Canadian history by giving usthe true stories behind well-known figures such as Harriet Tubmanand John Brown. She also profiles lesser-known but equally heroicfigures such as Mary Ann Shadd, who became the first black femalenewspaper editor in North America, and Osborne Perry Anderson, theonly black survivor of the fighting at Harpers Ferry. Anextraordinary examination of a part of American history, FromMidnight to Dawn will captivate readers with its tales of hope,courage, and a people’s determination to live equally under thelaw.

At the age of thirty-three, Ekow Eshun—born in London toAfrican-born parents—travels to Ghana in search of his roots. Hegoes from Accra, Ghana’s cosmopolitan capital city, to the storiedslave forts of Elmina, and on to the historic warrior kingdom ofAsante. During his journey, Eshun uncovers a long-held secret abouthis lineage that will compel him to question everything he knowsabout himself and where he comes from. From the London suburbs ofhis childhood to the twenty-first century African metropolis,Eshun’s is a moving chronicle of one man’s search for home, and ofthe pleasures and pitfalls of fashioning an identity in thesevibrant contemporary worlds.

master historian gives readers a fresh new picture of theCivil War as it really was. Buell examines three pairs ofcommanders from the North and South, who met each other in battle.Following each pair through the entire war, the author reveals thehuman dimensions of the drama and brings the battles to life. 38b w photos. From the Hardcover edition.

They had the most dangerous job n the Air Force. Now Bury UsUpside Down reveals the never-before-told story of the VietnamWar’s top-secret jet-fighter outfit–an all-volunteer unit composedof truly extraordinary men who flew missions from which heroes aremade. In today’s wars, computers, targeting pods, lasers, andprecision-guided bombs help FAC (forward air controller) pilotsidentify and destroy targets from safe distances. But in the searchfor enemy traffic on the elusive Ho Chi Minh Trail, always riskingenemy fire, capture, and death, pilots had to drop low enough toglimpse the telltale signs of movement such as suspicious dust ontreetops or disappearing tire marks on a dirt road (indicating ahidden truck park). Written by an accomplished journalist andveteran, Bury Us Upside Down is the stunning story of these braveAmericans, the men who flew in the covert Operation CommandoSabre–or “Misty”–the most innovative air operation of thewar. In missions that lasted for hours, the

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 Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Marine Corps’ ground campaignup the Tigris and Euphrates was notable for speed andaggressiveness unparalleled in military history. Little has beenwritten, however, of the air support that guaranteed the drive’ssuccess. Paving the way for the rush to Baghdad was “the hammerfrom above”–in the form of attack helicopters, jet fighters,transport, and other support aircraft. Now a former Marine fighterpilot shares the gripping never-before-told stories of the Marineswho helped bring to an end the regime of Saddam Hussein. As Jay Stout reveals, the air war had actually been in theplanning stages ever since the victory of Operation Desert Storm,twelve years earlier. But when Operation Iraqi Freedom officiallycommenced on March 20, 2003, the Marine Corps entered the fightwith an aviation arm at its smallest since before World War II.Still, with the motto “Speed Equals Success,” the separate air andground units acted as a team to get the job done. Drawing

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.

At the end of 1618, a blazing green star soared across thenight sky over the northern hemisphere. From the Philippines to theArctic, the comet became a sensation and a symbol, a warning ofdoom or a promise of salvation. Two years later, as the Pilgrimsprepared to sail across the Atlantic on board the Mayflower, theatmosphere remained charged with fear and expectation. Men andwomen readied themselves for war, pestilence, or divineretribution. Against this background, and amid deep economicdepression, the Pilgrims conceived their enterprise of exile. Within a decade, despite crisis and catastrophe, they built athriving settlement at New Plymouth, based on beaver fur, corn, andcattle. In doing so, they laid the foundations for Massachusetts,New England, and a new nation. Using a wealth of new evidence fromlandscape, archaeology, and hundreds of overlooked or neglecteddocuments, Nick Bunker gives a vivid and strikingly originalaccount of the Mayflower project and the first decade of thePlymouth Colon

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

In this gripping, page-turning account, Sam Moses has told astory in the tradition of Sebastian Junger’s A Perfect Storm,Robert Kurson’s Shadow Divers, and Hampton Sides’s Ghost Soldiers.It’s a story about the heroism of two men in battle at sea duringWorld War II, and one woman fleeing Nazi Norway with her child.It’s about how courage can change the course of history. AT ALL COSTS: How a Crippled Ship and Two American MerchantMarines Turned the Tide of World War II is the astonishing untoldaccount, with original historical reporting, of how two men facedunfathomable danger to help save the island of Malta, Churchill’scrux of the war. In 1942, the tiny island of Malta was the most heavily bombedplace on earth. Hitler needed Malta as a stepping-stone to get tothe oil in Iraq and Iran (Persia at the time). Blockaded by sea,Malta was running on empty, in food, fuel and ammunition. AxisU-boats and dive-bombers made supply convoys to Malta more likesuicide missions. In this last-hope

The award-winning historian John C. Waugh takes us onLincoln's road to the Civil War. From Lincoln's first publicrejection of slavery to his secret arrival in the capital, from hisstunning debates with Stephen Douglas to his more contemplatiemoments, Waugh shows us America as Lincoln saw it and as Lincolndescribed it. Much of this wonderful story is told by Lincolnhimself, detailing through his own writing his emergence onto thepolitical scene and the evolution of his beliefs about the Union,the Constitution, democracy, slavery, and the buildup to the CivilWar. In this acclaimed biography, Waugh brings us ever closer tounderstanding this mysterious, complicated, and truly greatman.