《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 1942 to 1944, twelve thousand children passed through theTheresienstadt internment camp, near Prague, on their way toAuschwitz. Only a few hundred of them survived the war. In TheGirls of Room 28, ten of these children—mothers and grandmotherstoday in their seventies—tell us how they did it. The Jews deported to Theresienstadt from countries all overEurope were aware of the fate that awaited them, and they decidedthat it was the young people who had the best chance to survive.Keeping these adolescents alive, keeping them whole in body, mind,and spirit, became the priority. They were housed separately, indormitory-like barracks, where they had a greater chance of stayinghealthy and better access to food, and where counselors (young menand women who had been teachers and youth workers) created adisciplined environment despite the surrounding horrors. Thecounselors also made available to the young people the talents ofan amazing array of world-class artists, musicians, andplaywrights–Euro

The assassination of Abraham Lincoln is a central drama of theAmerican experience. Its impact is felt to this day, and the basicstory is known to all. Anthony Pitch’s thrilling account of theLincoln conspiracy and its aftermath transcends the mere facts ofthat awful night during which dashing actor John Wilkes Booth shotLincoln in the head and would-be assassin Lewis Payne butcheredSecretary of State William Seward in the bed of his own home.“TheyHave Killed Papa Dead!”transports the reader to one of the mostbreathtaking moments in history, and reveals much that is new aboutthe stories, passions, and times of those who shaped this greattragedy. Virtually every word of Anthony Pitch’s account is based onprimary source material: new quotes from previously unpublisheddiaries, letters and journals – authentic contemporary voiceswriting with freshness and clarity as eyewitnesses or intimateparticipants – new images, a new vision and understanding of one ofAmerica’s defining moments. With

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.

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

At once a grand tour of the battlefields of North America andan unabashedly personal tribute to the military prowess of anessentially unwarlike people, Fields of Battle spans more than twocenturies and the expanse of a continent to show how the immensespaces of North America shaped the wars that were fought on itssoil. of photos.

This is the definitive report on Fragments, BinjaminWilkomirski's invented "memoir" of a childhood spent inconcentration camps, which created international turmoil. In 1995 Fragments, a memoir by a Swiss musician named BinjaminWilkomirski, was published in Germany. Hailed by critics, who compared it with themasterpieces of Primo Levi and Anne Frank, the book received majorprizes and was translated into nine languages. The English-languageedition was published by Schocken in 1996. In Fragments,Wilkomirski described in heartwrenching detail how as a small childhe survived internment in Majdanek and Birkenau and was eventuallysmuggled into Switzerland at the war's end. But three years after the book was first published, articlesbegan to appear that questioned its authenticity and the author'sclaim that he was a Holocaust survivor. Stefan Maechler, aSwiss historian and expert on anti-Semitism and Switzerland's treatmentof refugees during and after World War II, was commissioned onbe

Fighter Pilot's Heaven presents the dramatic inside story ofthe American military's transition into the jet age, as told by aflyer whose life depended on its success. With colorful anecdotesabout fellow pilots as well as precise technical information,Donald S. Lopez describes how it was to be “behind the stick” as atest pilot from 1945 to 1950, when the U.S. military was shiftingfrom war to peacetime operations and from propeller to jetaircraft. An ace pilot who had served with Gen. Claire Chennault's FlyingTiger Fighter Group, Lopez was assigned at the close of World WarII to the elite Proof Test Group of the Air Proving Ground Command.Located at Eglin Field (later Eglin Air Force Base) in Florida, thegroup determined the operational suitability of Air Force weaponssystems and aircraft and tested the first operational jet, the P-80Shooting Star. Jet fighters required new techniques, tactics, andweaponry. Lopez recounts historic test flights in the P-59, P-80,and P-84, among other planes, des

In 1922, the British archaeologist Henry Carter opened KingTutankhamun’s tomb, illuminating the glories of an ancientcivilization. And while the world celebrated the extraordinaryrevelation that gave Carter international renown and an indelibleplace in history, by the time of his death, the discovery hadnearly destroyed him. Now, in a stunning feat of narrativenonfiction, Daniel Meyerson has written a thrilling and evocativeaccount of this remarkable man and his times. Carter began his career inauspiciously. At the age ofseventeen–unknown, untrained, untried–he was hired as a copyist oftomb art by the brash, brilliant, and boldly unkempt father ofmodern archaeology, W. F. Petrie. Carter struck out on his own afew years later, sensing that something amazing lay buried beneathhis feet, waiting for him to uncover it. But others had the same idea: The ancient cities of Egypt werecrawling with European adventurers and their wealthy sponsors, eachhoping to outdo the others with glittering d

The myths of the ancient Greeks have inspired us for thousandsof years. Where did the famous stories of the battles of their godsdevelop and spread across the world? The celebrated classicistRobin Lane Fox draws on a lifetime’s knowledge of the ancientworld, and on his own travels, answering this question by pursuingit through the age of Homer. His acclaimed history explores how theintrepid seafarers of eighth-century Greece sailed around theMediterranean, encountering strange new sights—volcanic mountains,vaporous springs, huge prehistoric bones—and weaving them into themyths of gods, monsters and heroes that would become thecornerstone of Western civilization.