《帝师八思巴传》详细记述了八思巴一生对包括西藏地区在内的中国历史的发展所做出的多方面的有深远影响的重大贡献。在宗教方面,他以渊博的佛学知识和随机教化的灵活,赢得了忽必烈为首的元朝皇室的信赖和崇敬,通过他杰出的宗教活动成功地使蒙古皇室接受了藏传佛教。在政治方面,他顺应历史潮流,用毕生的精力促使西藏地方和广大藏族地区归附元朝中央,他和忽必烈开创的皇室与西藏地方佛教领袖的宗教、政治关系格局。元明清三朝延续了近七百年。在文化方面,他创新蒙古新字,把西藏的宗教、医学、艺术介绍到蒙古皇室和汉地,又把中原的文化介绍到西藏,使汉蒙藏各族的文化交流进入一个新的时期。
庄士敦在中国生活了三十余年,是名副其实的“中国通”。1919年-1924年,他身为溥仪的英文老师,见证和参与了溥仪所经历的一系列浮沉奇遇。在这部“目击身经”的实录里,庄士敦不仅书写了末代皇帝从少年到青年时代的身世,也借此勾连起从义和团运动到袁世凯称帝、张勋复辟、冯玉祥兵变等诸多重大事件的中国近代史。 译注者高伯雨对书中提及的各个人物生平和风俗习惯都十分熟悉。全书包含两酉多条译注,道出历史的诸多隐秘细节,为我们还原了真实而生动的时代面貌。
A powerful wartime saga in the bestselling tradition of Flags of Our Fathers, Brothers in Arms recounts theextraordinary story of the 761st Tank Battalion, the firstall-black armored unit to see combat in World War II.
The Battle of Iwo Jima, fought in the winter of 1945 on arocky island south of Japan, brought a ferocious slice of hell toearth: in a month's time, more than 22,000 Japanese soldiers woulddie defending a patch of ground a third the size of Manhattan,while nearly 26,000 Americans fell taking it from them. The battlewas a turning point in the war in the Pacific, and it produced oneof World War II's enduring images: a photograph of six soldiersraising an American flag on the flank of Mount Suribachi, theisland's commanding high point. One of those young Americans was John Bradley, a Navy corpsmanwho a few days before had braved enemy mortar and machine-gun fireto administer first aid to a wounded Marine and then drag him tosafety. For this act of heroism Bradley would receive the NavyCross, an award second only to the Medal of Honor. Bradley, who died in 1994, never mentioned his feat to hisfamily. Only after his death did Bradley's son James begin to piecetogether the facts of his father's h
There were no dry runs for Seawolves in Vietnam. They put their lives on the line—every time. In the Viet Cong-infested Mekong Delta, where smallSEAL teams were always outgunned and outnumbered, discovery broughtswift, deadly consequences— and a radio call for backup from theUnited States Navy’s very best: the Seawolves. The whir ofapproaching rotor blades signaled their arrival as they torethrough the jungle at treetop level, gunners hanging off the skids,shooting M-60s, raining down their lethal mix of high explosivesand incendiary death. Seawolf Dan Kelly describes the origins of this extraordinaryoutfit. Put through a training program unlike any other, these menemerged to perform unparalleled feats of courage. The stories ofthese elite warriors capture America’s real heroes in all theirguts and glory, and demonstrate why the Seawolves are known as themost successful and most decorated unit in the Vietnam War.
In 1971 a young French ethnologist named Francois Bizot wastaken prisoner by forces of the Khmer Rouge who kept him chained ina jungle camp for months before releasing him. Four years laterBizot became the intermediary between the now victorious KhmerRouge and the occupants of the besieged French embassy in PhnomPenh, eventually leading a desperate convoy of foreigners to safetyacross the Thai border. Out of those ordeals comes this transfixing book. At its centerlies the relationship between Bizot and his principal captor, a mannamed Douch, who is today known as the most notorious of the KhmerRouge’s torturers but who, for a while, was Bizot’s protector andfriend. Written with the immediacy of a great novel, unsparing inits understanding of evil, The Gate manages to be at oncewrenching and redemptive.
庄士敦在中国生活了三十余年,是名副其实的“中国通”。1919年-1924年,他身为溥仪的英文老师,见证和参与了溥仪所经历的一系列浮沉奇遇。在这部“目击身经”的实录里,庄士敦不仅书写了末代皇帝从少年到青年时代的身世,也借此勾连起从义和团运动到袁世凯称帝、张勋复辟、冯玉祥兵变等诸多重大事件的中国近代史。 译注者高伯雨对书中提及的各个人物生平和风俗习惯都十分熟悉。全书包含两酉多条译注,道出历史的诸多隐秘细节,为我们还原了真实而生动的时代面貌。
The best-selling novelist exposes the inner workings of thenuclear submarine, the core of America's nuclear arsenal, usingpreviously unrevealed diagrams and photographs along with formerlytop-secret information. 500,000 first printing. $200,000 ad/promo.--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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 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