A STUDY OF THE HEPHTHALITE HISTORY是同作者《嚈哒史研究》一书的英文版，是作者研究嚈哒史的专著。 嚈哒初是北亚一个弱小的游牧部族，四世纪七十年代迁往中亚，以后日益强大起来，开始了大规模的征服。极盛时期的嚈哒国幅员辽阔，除领有大部分中亚地区外，还一度占有波斯和印度的大片领土。从五世纪三十年代末嚈哒人占领今阿富汗北部，直至六世纪五十年代末嚈哒国家被突厥和波斯联盟灭亡，这一百二十年左右的时间在中亚史上称为嚈哒时代。嚈哒人的活动对中亚、北亚、南亚、西亚乃至欧洲的历史都产生了深远的影响。因此，嚈哒史研究是古代中亚史研究一个不可缺少的环节，也是中国西域史、波斯古代史和印度古代史研究的重要组成部分。也就是说，嚈哒史研究有其不容忽视的世界史意义。自十九世纪中叶起，各国学者纷纷发表有关嚈哒史研究的论文。20

A STUDY OF THE EARLY LITERATURES ON THE SILK ROAD是同作者《早期丝绸之路文献研究》一书的英文版，是作者对早期丝绸之路考证研究的专着。 《早期丝绸之路文献研究》对东方和西方的有关丝绸之路的古代文献资料进行了细致的考证、研究，求得不同语种文献的相互印证，从而确认古代东西交流的史实。全书分上卷、下卷、附卷三部分，对于《穆天子传》、《西域图记》、《历史》、《地理志》等中外古籍均有详实的考证和独到的比较研究。

Named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review Almost a decade in the making , this much-anticipated grandhistory of postwar Europe from one of the world’s most esteemedhistorians and intellectuals is a singular achievement. Postwar is the first modern history that covers all ofEurope, both east and west, drawing on research in six languages tosweep readers through thirty-four nations and sixty years ofpolitical and cultural change—all in one integrated, enthrallingnarrative. Both intellectually ambitious and compelling to read,thrilling in its scope and delightful in its small details, Postwar is a rare joy. * A Time and San Francisco Chronicle Best Book ofthe Year * Maps, photos, and cartoons throughout

Product De*ion Terrorism and violence from Beirut to Belfast, from Cyprus to Soweto, from Munich to Mogadishu. The Ayatollah Khomeini, Tricky Dicky Nixon, General Amin, Pol Pot, - young Michael Jackson and ageing Elvis - explosively revealed by the Camera's silent witness.

An award-winning historian's sweeping newinterpretation of the African American experience. In this masterful account, Ira Berlin, one of the nation's mostdistinguished historians, offers a revolutionary-and sure to becontroversial-new view of African American history. In The Makingof African America , Berlin challenges the traditional presentationof a linear, progressive history from slavery to freedom. Instead,he puts forth the idea that four great migrations, between theseventeenth and twenty-first centuries, lie at the heart of blackAmerican culture and its development. With an engrossing,accessible narrative, Berlin traces the transit from Africa toAmerica, Virginia to Alabama, Biloxi to Chicago, Lagos to theBronx, and in the process finds the essence of black Americanlife.

Provides an accessible introduction to 28 0f the most important actions of World War ll,including Dunkirk，the Battle of Britain，Operation Barbarossa，Pear Harbor,El Atamein．the siege of Leningrad，Kursk，Monte Cassino，the D-Day landings，Battle of the Bulge，lwo Jima，the Battle for Berlin，and many，many more. Includes full-color tactical maps that allow the reader to grasp at a glance the decisivemoves of the battle. Features rnore than 250 color and black,and—white photographs and artworks illustrating the soldiers,uniforms,and military technology of the era.

It is the biggest treasure hunt in history with contesting nations involved in a headlong race to locate the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. 4500 years ago, a magnificent golden capstone sat at the peak of the Great Pyramid of Giza. It was a source of immense power, reputedly capable of bestowing upon its holder absolute global power. But then it was divided into seven pieces and hidden, each piece separately, within the seven greatest structures of the age. Now it's 2006 and the coming of a rare solar event means it's time to locate the seven pieces and rebuild the capstone. Everyone wants it – from the most powerful countries on Earth to gangs of terrorists . . . and one daring coalition of eight small nations. Led by the mysterious Captain Jack West Jr, this determined group enters a global battlefield filled with booby-trapped mines, crocodile-infested swamps, evil forces and an adventure beyond imagining.

During the Second World War, Allied air forces dropped nearlytwo million tons of bombs on Germany, destroying some 60 cities,killing more than half a million German citizens, and leaving80,000 pilots dead. But the terrible truth is that much of thebombing was carried out against the expressed demands of theAllied military leadership, leading to the needless deaths ofhundreds of thousands of civilians. Focusing on the crucial period from 1942 to 1945, Fire andFury tells the story of the American and British bombingcampaign through the eyes of those involved: the military andcivilian command in America, Britain, and Germany, the aircrews inthe skies who carried out their orders, and civilians on the groundwho felt the fury of the Allied attacks. Here, for the first time,the story of the American and British air campaigns is told-and thecost accounted for...

Newly revised edition of Professor Crowe's accessible, enlightening book re-creates the change from an earth-centered to a sun-centered conception of the solar system. The work is organized around a hypothetical debate: Given the evidence available in 1615, which system (Ptolemaic, Copernican, Tychonic, etc.) was most deserving of support?

A renowned historian contends "that the Americanwarrior, not technology, wins wars." (Patrick K. O'Donnell, authorof Give Me Tomorrow ) John C. McManus coverssix decades of warfare in which the courage of American troopsproved the crucial difference between victory and defeat. Based onyears of archival research and personal interviews with veterans,Grunts demonstrates the vital, and too often forgotten, importanceof the human element in protecting the American nation, andadvances a passionate plea for fundamental change in ourunderstanding of war.

As the peerless warrior who brought the U.S. Army to its kneesat the Battle of Little Bighorn, Crazy Horse remains one of themost perennially fascinating figures of the American West. NowJoseph Marshall—a masterful storyteller, historian, and descendantof the same Lakota community that raised Crazy Horse—goes beyondthat image in this one-of-a-kind portrait of the legendary leader.Drawing on extensive research and a rich oral tradition that israrely shared outside the Native American community, Marshall givesus a uniquely complete portrait of Crazy Horse, from the powerfulvision that spurred him into battle to the woman he loved but lostto circumstance. The Journey of Crazy Horse celebrates along-standing community’s enduring culture and gives vibrant lifeto its most trusted and revered hero.

An updated edition of this classic collection of more than 500years of Native American history Revised to bring this important chronicle to the end of themillennium, anthropologist Peter Nabokov presents a history ofNative American and white relations as seen though Indian eyes andtold through Indian voices. Beginning with the Indians' firstencounters with European explorers, traders, missionaries,settlers, and soldiers to the challenges confronting NativeAmerican culture today, Native American Testimony is a series ofpowerful and moving documents spanning five hundred years ofinterchange between the two peoples. Drawing from a wide range ofsources--traditional narratives, Indian autobiographies, governmenttran*s, firsthand interviews, and more--Nabokov has assembleda remarkably rich and vivid collection, representing nothing lessthan an alternate history of North America. * Updated with new material on Native Americans facing thetwenty-first century "A strong and moving reminder of a

Prior to gaining international renown for his definitivebiography of Che Guevara and first-hand reporting on the war inIraq for the New Yorker , Jon Lee Anderson wrote Guerrillas , a pioneering account of five diverse insurgentmovements around the world—the mujahedin of Afghanistan, the FMLNof El Salvador, the Karen of Burma, the Polisario of WesternSahara, and a group of young Palestinians fighting against Israelin the Gaza Strip. Making the most of unprecedented, direct accessto his subjects, Anderson combines powerful, firsthand storytellingwith balanced, penetrating analysis of each situation. A work ofphenomenal range, analytical acuity, and human empathy, Guerrillas amply demonstrates why Jon Lee Anderson is one ofour most important chroniclers of societies in crisis.

Four Queens is a rich pageant of glamour, intrigue, andfeminine power at a time when women were thought to have playedlimited roles. In thirteenth-century Europe, four sisters from asingle family-Marguerite, Eleanor, Sanchia, and Beatrice ofProven?e-rose from obscurity to become the queens of, respectively,France, England, Germany, and Sicily. All four were beautiful,cultured, and ambitious, and their stories offer a window into theera of chivalry, crusades, poetry, knights, and monarchs that willappeal to fans of Alison Weir and Antonia Fraser.

Her enthusiasm for animals and travel has led her to visit many countries around the world where she can indulge her passion for watching and photographing wildlife. She is a[so author of Africa: Natural Spirit of the African Continent, Spirit of the Jungle, Spirit of the Elephant and Spirit of India in this series. Gill currently lives in a converted barn by the coast in Pembrokeshire with her graphic designer husband and three cats.

One of the most gifted and influential American journalists ofthe 20th century, A. J. Liebling spent five years reporting thedramatic events and myriad individual stories of World War II. As acorrespondent for The New Yorker , Liebling wrote with apassionate commitment to Allied victory, an unfailing attention totelling details, and an appreciation for the literary challengespresented by the “discursive, centrifugal, both repetitive anddisparate” nature of war. This volume brings together three booksalong with 26 uncollected New Yorker pieces and two excerptsfrom The Republic of Silence (1947), Liebling’s collectionof writing from the French Resistance. The Road Back to Paris (1944) narrates Liebling’sexperiences from September 1939 to March 1943, including his shockat the fall of France and dismay at isolationist indifference inthe United States; it contains classic accounts of a winter voyageon a Norwegian tanker during the Battle of the Atlantic, visits tofront-line airfields in

In late June 2005, media sources recounted the tragic story ofnineteen U.S. special operations personnel who died at the hands ofinsurgent / terrorist leader Ahmad Shah- and the lone survivor ofShah's ambush-deep in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan. Theharrowing events of Operation Red Wings marked an important-yetwidely misreported-chapter in the Global War on Terror, the fulldetails of which the public burned to learn. Victory Point reveals the complete, as-yet untold, storyof Operation Red Wings (often mis-referenced as "OperationRedwing"), and the follow-on mission, Operation Whalers. Together,these two U.S. Marine Corps operations (that in the case of RedWings utilized Navy SEALs for its opening phase) unfurl not as amission gone terribly wrong, but of a complex and difficultcampaign that ultimately saw the demise of Ahmad Shan and his smallarmy of barbarous fighters. Due to the valor, courage, and commitment of the 2nd Battalion ofthe 3rd Marine Regiment in the summer of 2005

An innovative and intriguing look at the foundations ofWestern civilization from two leading historians. The influence of ancient Greece and Rome can be seen in everyaspect of our lives. From calendars to democracy to the verylanguages we speak, Western civilization owes a debt to theseclassical societies. Yet the Greeks and Romans did not emerge fullyformed; their culture grew from an active engagement with a deeperpast, drawing on ancient myths and figures to shape vibrantcivilizations. In The Birth of Classical Europe, the latest entry in the PenguinHistory of Europe, historians Simon Price and Peter Thonemannpresent a fresh perspective on classical culture in a book full ofrevelations about civilizations we thought we knew. In thisimpeccably researched and immensely readable history we see theancient world unfold before us, with its grand cast of charactersstretching from the great Greeks of myth to the world-shapingCaesars. A landmark achievement, The Birth of Classical Europeprovides

Covering the dramatic rise of German science in the nineteenthcentury, its preeminence in the early twentieth, and thefrightening developments that led to its collapse in 1945, this isthe compelling story of German scientists under Hitler’s regime.Weaving the history of science and technology with the fortunes ofwar and the stories of men and women whose discoveries brought bothbenefits and destruction to the world, Hitler’s Scientists raises questions that are still urgent today. As science becomesembroiled in new generations of weapons of mass destruction and thewar against terrorism, as advances in biotechnology outstriptraditional ethics, this powerful account of Nazi science forms acrucial commentary on the ethical role of science.