Encyclopedic and panoramic in its scope, this fascinating workchronicles the rich spiritual, political, and cultural institutionsof Arab history through 13 centuries.

A look at America's foreign policy over the past two hundredyears posits the theory that America is struggling with two visionsof itself as reflected in its foreign policy.

A perennial backlist performer.

Ben Macintyre’s Agent Zigzag was hailed as “rollicking,spellbinding” ( New York Times ), “wildly improbable butentirely true” ( Entertainment Weekly ), and, quite simply,“the best book ever written” ( Boston Globe ). In his newbook, Operation Mincemeat , he tells an extraordinary storythat will delight his legions of fans. In 1943, from a windowless basement office in London, two brilliantintelligence officers conceived a plan that was both simple andcomplicated— Operation Mincemeat. The purpose? To deceive the Nazisinto thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southernEurope by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as theNazis had assumed, and the Allies ultimately chose. Charles Cholmondeley of MI5 and the British naval intelligenceofficer Ewen Montagu could not have been more different.Cholmondeley was a dreamer seeking adventure. Montagu was anaristocratic, detail-oriented barrister. But together they were theperfect team and created an ingenious plan: Get a corp

America’s first frontier was not the West; it was thesea—and no one writes more eloquently about that watery wildernessthan Nathaniel Philbrick. In his bestselling In the Heart of theSea Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vastPacific. Now, in an epic sea adventure, he writes about one of themost ambitious voyages of discovery the Western world has everseen—the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838– 1842. On a scale thatdwarfed the journey of Lewis and Clark, six magnificent sailingvessels and a crew of hundreds set out to map the entire PacificOcean—and ended up naming the newly discovered continent ofAntarctica, collecting what would become the basis of theSmithsonian Institution, and much more.

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In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, the authorof the highly acclaimed The Winter People tells the moving, searingstory of the betrayal and brutal dispossession of the CherokeeNation. "(A) beautifully written and emotionally mature book . . .a must."--New York Newsday.

That Sweet Enemy brings bothBritish wit (Robert Tombs is a British historian) and Frenchpanache (Isabelle Tombs is a French historian) to bear on threecenturies of the history of Britain and France. From Waterloo toChirac’s slandering of British cooking, the authors chart thiscross-channel entanglement and the unparalleled breadth ofcultural, economic, and political influence it has wrought on bothsides, illuminating the complex and sometimes contradictory aspectsof this relationship—rivalry, enmity, and misapprehension mixedwith envy, admiration, and genuine affection—and the myriad ways ithas shaped the modern world. Written with wit and elegance, and illustrated with delightfulimages and cartoons from both sides of the Channel, That SweetEnemy is a unique and immensely enjoyable history, destined tobecome a classic.

"An extraordinary work of history, imaginatively conceived,thoroughly researched and absorbingly written. William Leach allowsus to see the production of mass consumer culture and to see itwhole, in its richness and its poverty. It is a fascinating andtroubling tale, and Leach tells it with exceptional skill andsensitivity." --Jean-Christophe Agnew, Yale University "A major reinterpretation of our cultural experience, Land ofDesire is a brilliant, evocative, and highly readable study by anoriginal, honest and courageous historian who has seen to the heartof American commercial culture. In a society in debt to thelicentious 1980s and unfortunately still attempting to achievesocial justice though endless growth, this is requiredreading."--Mary O. Furner, University of California, SantaBarbara

An absorbing and comprehensive work, INDIAN WARS recounts theviolent conflicts between Native Americans and white settlers thatlasted more than three hundred years, the effects of which stillresonate today. Here, the widely respected historians Robert Utleyand Wilcomb Washburn examine both small battles and major wars --from the Native rebellion of 1492, to Crazy Horse and the SiouxWar, to the massacre at Wounded Knee. This volume contains a newintroduction by Robert Utley.

Containing over 120 combat photographs- including shots of theflag-raising by other photographers-quotes from survivors,newspapers and magazines, battle reports and Medal of Honorcitations, here is a grunt's eye view of the bloodiest battle inU.S. Marine Corps history. It also recounts "the photograph's"enduring legacy in popular culture, and reveals the fates of theflag raisers- men who became a fixture in their country'shistory.

John Keegan, whose many books, including classic histories ofthe two world wars, have confirmed him as the premier miltaryhistorian of our time, here presents a masterly look at the valueand limitations of intelligence in the conduct of war. Intelligence gathering is an immensely complicated and vulnerableendeavor. And it often fails. Until the invention of the telegraphand radio, information often traveled no faster than a horse couldride, yet intelligence helped defeat Napoleon. In the twentiethcentury, photo analysts didn’t recognize Germany’s V-2 rockets forwhat they were; on the other hand, intelligence helped lead tovictory over the Japanese at Midway. In Intelligence inWar , John Keegan illustrates that only when paired withforce has military intelligence been an effective tool, as it mayone day be in besting al-Qaeda.

A New York Times Editors Choice for Book of theYear Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award Winner of the PEN West Creative Nonfiction Award "No one has evoked with greater power the marriage of land andsky that gives this country both its beauty and its terror. " --Washington Post Book World In 1909 maps still identified eastern Montana as the GreatAmerican Desert. But in that year Congress, lobbied heavily byrailroad companies, offered 320-acre tracts of land to anyone boldor foolish enough to stake a claim to them. Drawn by shamelesslyinventive brochures, countless homesteaders--many of themimmigrants--went west to make their fortunes. Most failed. In BadLand, Jonathan Raban travels through the unforgiving country thatwas the scene of their dreams and undoing, and makes their storycome miraculously alive. In towns named Terry, Calypso, and Ismay (which changed its nameto Joe, Montana, in an effort to attract football fans), and in thelandscape in betwee

Military historian Alexander ( Lost Victories et al.)offers a well-reasoned brief that lays the blame for theConfederate defeat in the Civil War primarily on PresidentJefferson Davis and Gen. Robert E. Lee, and their war-longinsistence on conducting toe-to-toe frontal assaults against themuch-stronger Union Army. Alexander argues that had Davis and Leelistened to Gen. Stonewall Jackson, things very well could haveturned out differently. Jackson—and like-minded generals Joseph E.Johnston, Pierre G.T. Beauregard and James Longstreet—warnedagainst conducting an offensive war against the North. Instead,they advocated waging unrelenting war against undefended factories,farms, and railroads north of the Mason-Dixon line, bypassing theUnion Army and winning indirectly by assaulting the Northernpeople's will to pursue the war. While Alexander convincinglyargues that there was nothing inevitable about a Southern defeat,he is no Lost Cause advocate. Instead, he presents well-drawn andclear-eyed tactical and strat

Marco Polo’s account of his journey throughout the East in thethirteenth century was one of the earliest European travelnarratives, and it remains the most important. Themerchant-traveler from Venice, the first to cross the entirecontinent of Asia, provided us with accurate de*ions of lifein China, Tibet, India, and a hundred other lands, and recordedcustoms, natural history, strange sights, historical legends, andmuch more. From the dazzling courts of Kublai Khan to the perilousdeserts of Persia, no book contains a richer magazine of marvelsthan the Travels. This edition, selected and edited by the great scholar ManuelKomroff, also features the classic and stylistically brilliantMarsden translation, revised and corrected, as well as Komroff’sIntroduction to the 1926 edition.

Orville Prescott The New York Times One of the most important works of history of our time. Hugh Trevor-Roper The New York Times Book Review A splendid work of scholarship, objective in method, sound in judgment, inescapable in its conclusions. Theodore H. White A monumental work, a grisly and thrilling story. John Gunther One of the most spectacular stories ever told. 作者简介： William L. Shirer had a distinguished career as a foreign correspondent,news commentator, and historian of the contemporary world. He reported from Berlin for the Universal News Service and for CBS on the rise of the Nazis and he covered their fall as a war correspondent. Out of these reports grew his best-sellers Berlin Diary and The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.Shirer authored many other best-selling books, including The Collapse of the Third Republic, Love and Hatred: The Stormy Marriage of Leo and Sonya Tolstoy, and an autobiography, 20th Century Journe

This brief and illuminating account of the ideas of worldorder prevalent in the Elizabethan age and later is anindispensable companion for readers of the great writers of thesixteenth and seventeenth centuries—Shakespeare and the Elizabethandramatists, Donne and Milton, among many others. The basic medievalidea of an ordered Chain of Being is studied by Professor Tillyardin the process of its various transformations by the dynamic spiritof the Renaissance. Among his topics are: Angels; the Stars andFortunes; the Analogy between Macrocosm and Microcosm; the FourElements; the Four Humours; Sympathies; Correspondences; and theCosmic Dance—ideas and symbols which inspirited the minds andimaginations not only of the Elizabethans but of all men of theRenaissance.

The complete historical works of the greatest chronicler ofthe Roman Empire in a wholly revised and updated translation. A brilliant narrator and a master stylist, Tacitus served asadministrator and senator, a career that gave him an intimate viewof the empire at its highest levels, and of the dramatic, violent,and often bloody events of the first century. In the Annals, hewrites about Augustus Caesar’s death and observes the innerworkings of the courts of the emperors Tiberius and Nero. In theHistories, he describes an empire in tumult, four emperors reigningin one year, each overthrown by the next. The Agricola, a biographyof Tacitus’s father-in-law, Julius Agricola—the most celebratedgovernor of Roman Britain—is the first detailed account of theisland that would eventually rule over a quarter of the earth. Andin the Germania, the famed warrior-barbarians of ancient Germanycome richly to life.

THE CIA IN ITS GLORY DAYS and the mad confidence that led todisaster in Vietnam are the subjects of Roger Warner's prizewinninghistory, Shooting at the Moon: The CIA's War in Laos (firstpublished as Back Fire, Simon Schuster, 1995). For a fewyears in the early 1960s the CIA seemed to be running a perfectcovert war in Laos - quiet, inexpensive, just enough arms to helpMeo tribesmen defend their home territory from the Communist PathetLao. Then the big American war next door in Vietnam spilled acrossthe border. How the perfect covert war ballooned into sorrow anddisaster is the story Roger Warner tell in Shooting at the Moon,awarded the Cornelius Ryan Award for 1995's Best Book on ForeignAffairs by the Overseas Press Club. Warner describes his characters with a novelist's touch -soldiers and diplomats busy with war-making; CIA field officersfrom bareknuckle warriors to the quiet men pulling strings in theshadows; and above all the Meo as they realized they had been leddown the garden path.

The 2003 Iraq war remains among the most mysterious armedconflicts of modernity. In The Iraq War, John Keegan offers a sharpand lucid appraisal of the military campaign, explaining just howthe coalition forces defeated an Iraqi army twice its size andaddressing such questions as whether Saddam Hussein ever possessedweapons of mass destruction and how it is possible to fight a warthat is not, by any conventional measure, a war at all. Drawing on exclusive interviews with Donald Rumsfeld and GeneralTommy Franks, Keegan retraces the steps that led to the showdown inIraq, from the highlights of Hussein’s murderous rule to thediplomatic crossfire that preceded the invasion. His account of thecombat in the desert is unparalleled in its grasp of strategy andtactics. The result is an urgently needed and up-to-date book thatadds immeasurably to our understanding of those twenty-one days ofwar and their long, uncertain aftermath.

From the deadly shores of North Africa to the invasion ofSicily to the fierce jungle hell of the Pacific, the contributionof the World War II Ranger Battalions far outweighed their numbers.They were ordinary men on an extraordinary mission, experiencingthe full measure of the fear, exhaustion, and heroism of combat innearly every major invasion of the war. Whether spearheading alanding force or scouting deep behind enemy lines, these highlymotivated, highly trained volunteers led the way for other soldiers-- they were Rangers. With first-person interviews, in-depth research, and a completeappendix naming every Ranger known to have served, author RobertBlack, a Ranger himself, has made the battles of WWII come to lifethrough the struggles of the men who fought to win the greatest warthe world has ever seen.

California has always been our Shangri-la–the promised land ofcountless pilgrims in search of the American Dream. Now the GoldenState’s premier historian, Kevin Starr, distills the entire sweepof California’s history into one splendid volume. From the age ofexploration to the age of Arnold, this is the story of a place atonce quintessentially American and utterly unique. Arguing that America’s most populous state has always beenblessed with both spectacular natural beauty and astonishing humandiversity, Starr unfolds a rapid-fire epic of discovery,innovation, catastrophe, and triumph. For generations, California’s native peoples basked in theabundance of a climate and topography eminently suited to humanhabitation. By the time the Spanish arrived in the early sixteenthcentury, there were scores of autonomous tribes were thriving inthe region. Though conquest was rapid, nearly two centuries passedbefore Spain exerted control over upper California through thechain of missions that s

The fascinating story of a lost city and anunprecedented American civilization While Mayanand Aztec civilizations are widely known and documented, relativelyfew people are familiar with the largest prehistoric NativeAmerican city north of Mexico-a site that expert Timothy Pauketatbrings vividly to life in this groundbreaking book. Almost athousand years ago, a city flourished along the Mississippi Rivernear what is now St. Louis. Built around a sprawling central plazaand known as Cahokia, the site has drawn the attention ofgenerations of archaeologists, whose work produced evidence ofcomplex celestial timepieces, feasts big enough to feed thousands,and disturbing signs of human sacrifice. Drawing on thesefascinating finds, Cahokia presents a lively and astonishingnarrative of prehistoric America.