Thoughtful, thorough and insightful, [Ackroyd] is at least asmuch interpreter as historian. He brings this iconic city to vividlife ... While Venice is by no means an orthodox traveler's guide,it's a wonderful introduction to a city that has cast a particularspell since the fifth century ... A portrait so vivid it's aromatic... Intoxicating. — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Ackroyd provides a history of and meditation on the actual andimaginary Venice in a volume as opulent and paradoxical as the cityitself. . . . How Ackroyd deftly catalogues the overabundance ofthe city’s real and literary tropes and touchstones is itself akind of tribute to La Serenissima , as Venice is called, andhis seductive voice is elegant and elegiac. The resulting book is,like Venice, something rich, labyrinthine and unique that makesitself and its subject both new and necessary.” — Publishers Weekly Praise from the UK: "Ackroyd is hugely intelligent and formidably industrious; therecan be few people, Venetian or foreign
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CAPTIVES(ISBN=9780385721462) 英文原版
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EAGLES AND EMPIRE(ISBN=9780553806526) 英文原版
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UNDER THE BLACK FLAG(ISBN=9780812977226)
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IN PHARAOH'S ARMY(ISBN=9780679760238) 英文原版
In This Boy's Life Tobias Wolf created an unforgettable memoirof an American childhood. Now he gives us a precisely and sometimespitilessly remembered account of his young manhood - a youngmanhood that become entangled in the tragic adventure that wasVietnam. Mordantly funny, searingly honest, In Pharoah's Army is awar memoir in the tradition of George Orwell and Michael Herr.
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EUROPE'S LAST SUMMER(ISBN=9780375725753)
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DECLINE & FALL OF ROMAN EMPIRE(ISBN=9780375758119)
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AMERICAS, THE(ISBN=9780812975543) 英文原版
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PARIS 1919(ISBN=9780375760525)
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TRAVELLING HEROES(ISBN=9780679763864) 英文原版
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NAPOLEON IN EGYPT(ISBN=9780553385243)
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UTILITY OF FORCE, THE(ISBN=9780307278111) 英文原版
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AMERICAN SCOUNDREL(ISBN=9780385722254) 英文原版
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WE TWO(ISBN=9780345520012) 英文原版
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EICHMANN TRIAL, THE(ISBN=9780805242607) 英文原版
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WEALTH AND DEMOCRACY(ISBN=9780767905343)
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VIETNAM MEDAL OF HONOR HEROES(ISBN=9780345476180) 英文原版
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FROM COLUMBUS TO CASTRO(ISBN=9780394715025)
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REAL LINCOLN, THE(ISBN=9780761526469)
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HENRY VIII(ISBN=9780345437082)
Alison Weir has perfected the art of bringing history tolife.? Chicago Tribune A DETAILED JOURNEY THROUGH THE COURT AND LIFE OF HENRY VIII . .. Thoroughly researched and entertaining, filled with deliciousdetails for general readers and provocative argument for studentsof the period.? Kirkus Reviews (starred review) -- Review
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10 DAYS THAT UNEXPECTEDLY CHAN(ISBN=9780307339348)
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HOW CAPITALISM SAVED AMERICA(ISBN=9781400083312)
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BECOMING QUEEN VICTORIA(ISBN=9780345461957)
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NEW YORK BURNING(ISBN=9781400032266) 英文原版
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SHERMAN'S MARCH(ISBN=9780394757636) 英文原版
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S EXTRAORDINAR(ISBN=9781426203282)
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CIVIL WAR, THE (VOL. 1)(ISBN=9780394746234)
In 1954, Shelby Foote was a young novelist with a contract towrite a short history of the Civil War. It soon became clear,however, that he had undertaken a long-term project. Twenty yearslater Foote finally completed his massive and essential trilogy onthe War Between the States. His three books are prose masterpieceswith lively characterizations and gripping action. Although Footenever sacrifices the truth of what happened to his penchant forartistry, his skills as a novelist serve him well. Reading allthree of these books will take some time, but they are worth theinvestment--especially if you, like Foote, have a touch of sympathyfor the South's lost cause.
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Orion Mystery, The(ISBN=9780517884546)
A revolutionary book that explains the most enigmatic andfascinating wonder of the ancient world: the Pyramids of Egypt."[An] absorbing and fascinating work of archaeologicaldetection...clearly and rivetingly told...the book is highly andcompulsively readable."-- London Sunday Times. 16-pageblack-and-white inserts.
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HAMILTON'S CURSE(ISBN=9780307382856) 英文原版
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WITH THE OLD BREED (MTI)(ISBN=9780891419068)
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WARRIOR ELITE, THE(ISBN=9781400046959) 英文原版
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LONE STAR NATION(ISBN=9781400030705) 英文原版
“A balanced, unromanticized account [of] America’s great epic.”– The New York Times Book Review “Sweeping and specific. . . . [Brands] writes the story withclarity and vigor. . . . Clearly adds to our knowledge of an erawhen men rode to the sound of guns and honor was a comprehensibleconcept.” – The Washington Post Book World “[Brands] offers both sides of the Texas story, strikingperspectives from both the revolutionists and the Mexicans whoopposed them. . . . Lone Star Nation combines depth,de*ion and detail in a magnificent, fascinating book.” – TheMiami Herald “Extraordinary. . . . A rich story that thrives above all else onthe novelistic depth of character he gives to his subjects.”– Austin American-Statesman “Rousing. . . . [Brands] is a master of the ground-view,narrative history.” – Dallas Morning News “Brands [is] on the path to becoming the preeminent popularhistorian of his generation. . . . There is no denying [his] talentfor clear, cogent and unclutt
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STATE OF JONES, THE(ISBN=9780767929462) 英文原版
Amazon Best of the Month, July 2009: Make room in yourunderstanding of the Civil War for Jones County, Mississippi, wherea maverick small farmer named Newton Knight made a local legend ofhimself by leading a civil war of his own against the Confederateauthorities. Anti-planter, anti-slavery, and anti-con*ion,Knight and thousands of fellow poor whites, army deserters, andrunaway slaves waged a guerrilla insurrection against the secessionthat at its peak could claim the lower third of Mississippi aspro-Union territory. Knight, who survived well beyond the war (andfathered more than a dozen children by two mothers who livedalongside each other, one white and one black), has long been anotorious, half-forgotten figure, and in The State of Jonesjournalist Sally Jenkins and Harvard historian John Stauffercombine to tell his story with grace and passion. Using courttran*s, family memories, and other sources--and filling theremaining gaps with stylish evocations of crucial moments in thewider war--Jenkins and
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FDR'S FOLLY(ISBN=9781400054770) 英文原版
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GATE, THE(ISBN=9780375727238) 英文原版
?A harrowing narrative, worthy of a novel by Graham Greene orJohn le Carré? [It] possesses the indelible power of a survivor?stestimony.? -- The New York Times ?It possesses such truth offeeling, such clarity and conviction of narrative, such a wealth ofimage and adventure, and such depths of long-held passion that I dobelieve it is indeed that rarest thing: a classic.? ? John le Carré, from the Foreword?A deeply unsettling account of a particularordeal that suggests larger questions: the moralities of power'sends and means, the character of revolutionary fanaticism and theindecipherable humanity that flickers within it. . . . by turnsevocative, wise and crisscrossed by fury.? ? The New York TimesBook Review ?[A] fascinating book, to say the least. Passages of The Gate are riveting, some scenes heartbreaking.? ? TheWall Street Journal -- Review
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ROAD TO ELEUSIS, THE(ISBN=9781556437526) 英文原版
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DECISION IN PHILADELPHIA(ISBN=9780345498403)
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XIN LOI, VIET NAM(ISBN=9780891418566) 英文原版
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DESTRUCTIVE WAR, THE(ISBN=9780679738787) 英文原版
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IF I DIE IN A COMBAT ZONE(ISBN=9780767904438) 英文原版
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WILLIAM COOPER'S TOWN(ISBN=9780679773009)
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KILLING HITLER(ISBN=9780553382556) 英文原版
From Publishers Weekly Although Hitlertook his own life, there was no shortage of people who wanted, andattempted, to do it for him throughout his political career.Drawing on newly opened archives in Germany and elsewhere, Britishhistorian Moorhouse ( Microcosm: Portrait of a Central EuropeanCity ) casts a wide net, chronicling failed assassinationattempts by disaffected individuals in the early days of Hitler'sreign, such as radical university student Maurice Bavaud, whosethree easily thwarted tries in November 1938 got him guillotined;the efforts of a British group of James Bond–like spies armed with,among other things, "exploding rats"; and the well-known attemptsof German officers, such as Hitler's architect Albert Speer.Moorhouse also brings to light little-known would-be-assassins,such as members of the Polish underground. Most of theassassination attempts Moorhouse describes failed because of poorplanning; others fell victim to circumstance, while some may simplyhave been rumors, making for a comp
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1491 is not so much the story of a year, as of whatthat year stands for: the long-debated (and often-dismissed)question of what human civilization in the Americas was like beforethe Europeans crashed the party. The history books most Americanswere (and still are) raised on describe the continents beforeColumbus as a vast, underused territory, sparsely populated byprimitives whose cultures would inevitably bow before the advancedtechnologies of the Europeans. For decades, though, among thearchaeologists, anthropologists, paleolinguists, and others whosediscoveries Charles C. Mann brings together in 1491 ,different stories have been emerging. Among the revelations: thefirst Americans may not have come over the Bering land bridgearound 12,000 B.C. but by boat along the Pacific coast 10 or even20 thousand years earlier; the Americas were a far more urban, morepopulated, and more technologically advanced region than generallyassumed; and the Indians, rather than living in static harmony withnature, radic
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BARBARY PLAGUE, THE(ISBN=9780375757082) 英文原版
A pleasure to read, full of people, dramatic situations,individual foibles and collective hard work...The story, 100 yearsold, has much to teach us about today.? ?The New York Times Book Review ?An involving medical detective story...richly atmospheric [and]consistently enthralling.? ?San Francisco Chronicle ?Chase, with her elegant, subtle writing, brings alive the humanvictims, particularly the often-tragic lives of Chinese laborerstrying to make a life for themselves.? ?USA Today ?If the folks at Homeland Security read one book this year, letit be Marilyn Chase?s The Barbary Plague, for the way it capturesin precise detail how political and business imperatives can impedethe battle against a deadly epidemic, in this case the bubonicplague?the fabled Black Death?in old San Francisco. The city?sleaders, even its health department, fought the news of theplague?s arrival more aggressively than the disease itself, despitethe deaths of dozens of vic
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EMPIRES OF THE SEA(ISBN=9780812977646)
“[Crowley] offers exquisitely delicate insights and undulatingde*ive passages. Yet in his de*ions of the battles, hisprose is so taut and tense, it is impossible not to be caught up inthe harrowing action.”— Christian Science Monitor “A masterly narrative that captures the religious fervor, brutalityand mayhem of this intensive contest.”— Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Gripping . . . This is a rare combination of a history book thatreads with the detail, insight and pace of a novel.”— TampaTribune “Crowley has an astonishing gift for narration; hisaccount is as exciting as any thriller.”— Wall StreetJournal “Crowley’s page-turner history . . . deserves to be this [season’s]most recommended nonfiction book. . . . Rich in character, action,surprise, what transpired in those few desperate weeks is one ofhistory’s best and most thrilling stories.”— Dallas MorningNews
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WAR AND OUR WORLD(ISBN=9780375705205)
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DEATH TRAPS(ISBN=9780891418146)
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GOLDEN EMPIRE, THE(ISBN=9781400061259)
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ELIZABETH'S WOMEN(ISBN=9780553806984)
“Tracy Borman is one of our finest historians. She has a passionfor history that illuminates her books, and writes with integrity,humanity, and skill. Elizabeth’s Women offers brilliant newinsights into the shaping of the Virgin Queen. If you thought therewas nothing more that could be said about Elizabeth I, you will beentranced by this original, masterly, and fascinating study ofaspects of her life that have hitherto been overlooked. This ishistory as it should be written—and an invaluable aid to ourunderstanding of its subject. Elizabeth’s Women is definitely onefor my bookshelf!”—Alison Weir, New York Times bestselling authorof The Lady in the Tower “The idea behind her book is genuinely inspired.”—John Guy, SundayTimes (U.K.) “Readable and fun.”—Leanda de Lisle, LiteraryReview “Borman’s book is innovative, full of rich, too often neglectedfemale characters.”—Lady Antonia Fraser "Here we have a most remarkable and surprisingly fresh study of theVirgin Queen that
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YIDDISH CIVILISATION(ISBN=9781400033775) 英文原版
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FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS(ISBN=9780553111330)
The Battle of Iwo Jima, fought in the winter of 1945 on a rockyisland south of Japan, brought a ferocious slice of hell to earth:in a month's time, more than 22,000 Japanese soldiers would diedefending a patch of ground a third the size of Manhattan, whilenearly 26,000 Americans fell taking it from them. The battle was aturning point in the war in the Pacific, and it produced one ofWorld War II's enduring images: a photograph of six soldiersraising an American flag on the flank of Mount Suribachi, theisland's commanding high point.
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LAST APOCALYSPE, THE(ISBN=9780385483360) 英文原版
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How The South Could Have Won T(ISBN=9780307346001)
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TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO, THE(ISBN=9780375758188)
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SATISFACTION GUARANTEED(ISBN=9781588341464) 英文原版
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BLOOD AND THUNDER(ISBN=9781400031108) 英文原版
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FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE, THE(ISBN=9781932234176) 英文原版
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