Une synthèse globale par un spécialiste incontesté. On connaît la sentence de Churchill : " La Russie est un rébus enveloppé de mystère au sein d'une énigme. " Son histoire résulte d'une longue construction de plus d'un millénaire, élaborée sous deux dynasties, celles des Riourikides et des Romanov, avant un XXe siè...

"A terrific author . . . invaluable to the modeler wishing to reproduce these classes of destroyers, and also to those interested in naval history."ーIPMS Magazine The ShipCraft series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes...

The New York Times and USA Today bestseller For sixteen years, Angela Merkel was Chancellor of Germany and at the forefront of European and international politics. In her memoir, she looks back on her life in two German statesーEast Germany until 1990, and reunified Germany thereafter. How did she, coming from the E...

**“In the modern tradition of Big Books of human history like Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens and David Graeber and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything, Goliath’s Curse provides a novel theory of civilizational development. . . . [It] feels something like reading the French economist Thomas Piketty filtered through M...

Piano Makers in Russia in the Nineteenth Century is a richly detailed thematic study of the history of the piano in Russian society from its beginnings with the European artisans who settled in St. Petersburg in the early decades of the century through the transition to Russian-owned family firms. The piano played a...

Pontiac's War erupted in the Great Lakes region of North America just as the French and Indian War came to a close in 1763. The French, who had initially established a European presence there, were usurped by the British, whose relations with indigenous peoples were notoriously less diplomatic and more destructive. ...

Alfred Nobel began his career as a brilliant inventor and industrialist, but his inventionsーparticularly the creation of dynamiteーbrought him more anguish than satisfaction. Though his scientific achievements earned him fortune and fame, Nobel became deeply troubled by the destructive uses of his work. Branded the...

In 1940, defeat seemed inevitable. Yet from the beaches of Dunkirk emerged one of the most extraordinary rescues in military history. As German forces closed in, a hastily assembled flotilla of civilian vesselsーlater immortalized as the "Little Ships"ーcrossed the English Channel to save the British Army from annih...

Rudolf II: The Life and Legend of the Mad Emperor offers a fresh perspective on the Habsburg ruler, shedding new light on a reign often coloured by myths of madness. Contrary to popular belief, Rudolf was not a passive recluse but an engaged monarch, navigating the complexities of state affairs with a moderate hand ...

From November 1942 through to May 1945, the backbone of the USAAF's medium bomber force was provided by the clutch of bomb groups equipped with the B-25 Mitchell. First seeing action in North Africa in the wake of Operation Torch, and in the Battle of El Alamein, the 'bombing twin' proved to be one of the most succe...

#1 New York Times Bestseller • New York Times Readers’ Pick: Top 100 Books of the 21**st** Century • The Summer Reading Pick for President Barack Obama and Bill Gates Official U.S. edition with full color illustrations throughout. From renowned historian Yuval Noah Harari comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity...

本書中討論的是什麼是「中國」，現代中國是怎樣從古代中國逐漸形成的，這個包含了眾多民族、複雜文化和龐大疆域的「中國」，在當下面臨著什麼樣的問題？研究中國歷史繞不開這些大問題，觀察現實中國也不能迴避這些大問題。最近，迅速膨脹的中國面臨的嚴重問題之一，就是中國與亞洲和世界，究竟在文化、政治和經濟上如何相處？我們要承認，現...

In the face of ruthless totalitarian rule, it is only the rare few who stand up at risk of their own life to do what is right. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of those exceptional individuals. Even on pain of death, he would not bend, he would not budgeーthis German pastor fought the Nazi regime with every fiber of his ...

諾曼第戰役之後的趁勝追擊 波瀾壯闊開場，人人雄心壯志、迫不及待 樂觀與謹慎過了頭，使得最後以悲劇收場，盟軍損兵折將 後世以「奪橋遺恨」永誌此役 　　重現「二戰經典三部曲」的磅礡氣勢 　　非虛構寫作大師不得錯過的經典傳世之作 　　「報告長官，我們可能打得有點太遠了。」 　　布朗寧中將，盟軍第一空降軍團副司令 　　英國第一空降...

The Falklands War, which erupted in 1982, was a conflict between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Argentina over sovereignty of the Falklands, a group of largely uninhabited islands in the South Atlantic. The islands had under two thousand inhabitants and little particular strategic or commercial importance wh...

Henry Ford once announced to a young schoolboy that it was he who had invented the modern age. Born on a farm in rural Michigan three weeks after the battle of Gettysburg, Ford hated everything about farming as soon as he could understand what it was about. So he turned his attention to the farm machinery that made ...