在大英帝国称雄世界的几个世纪中，英国陆军与英国皇家海军一道，充当了帝国的马前卒与武力征服的工具。可以说没有英国陆军，就不会有英国的君主立宪议会制度。在英国历史尤其是近代史上，英国陆军的地位是不可替代的；在世界军事史和政治史上，它同样占有相当重要的地位。
《英国陆军史》从1642年英国陆军的发轫之战开始，极具远见的克伦威尔创立职业化常备陆军，一直到精彩的马岛战争、当前的阿富汗战事，全面囊括这支军队最引人注目的近400年战史。马尔伯勒在布伦海姆的大胜，与威灵顿在滑铁卢的胜利，有什么关联？发生在1879年罗克渡口的决死之战，对1944年阿纳姆空降兵部队的英雄气概，又起了什么支撑作用？蒙哥马利在阿拉曼战役的硕果，为什么仍能深远影响二战之后的英国陆军？
从未打过一场胜仗，再未打过一场败仗......这里，蜿蜒穿越欧、亚、非的交通干线，传奇来自军事行动血与火的考验，身处异域他乡，激战以寡敌众，胜利常常是在极微弱的优势下获得。英国陆军“为什么会成为今天这个样子”——规模很小但却本事高强，秘诀就在它的历史和传统里：一部铅字和钢铁碎片书写成的历史。
今天，只有美国和英国（可能还有法国）具备在海外开展任何规模的独立作战的能力。海军和空军是配置了人的装备，而陆军则是配置了装备的人。它时常处于半饥饿状态，保护贸易和帝国成了英国陆军首选的行动。“如果你不准备为和平付出代价，你就准备为战争付出代价吧。”

David Hobbs looks at the post-World War II fortunes of the most powerful fleet in the Royal Navy--its decline in the face of diminishing resources, its final fall at the hands of ignorant politicians, and its recent resurrection in the form of the Queen Elizabeth class carriers, the largest ships ever built for the Royal Navy. Despite prophecies that nuclear weapons would make conventional forces obsolete, British carrier-borne aircraft were almost continuously employed. This book combines narratives of poorly understood operations with clear analysis of their strategic and political background. With beautiful illustrations and original research, British Carrier Strike Fleet tells an important but largely untold story of renewed significance as Britain once again embraces carrier operation.

This novel reveals more about the Battle of Gettysburg than any piece of learned nonfiction on the same subject. Michael Shaara's account of the three most important days of the Civil War features deft characterizations of all of the main actors, including Lee, Longstreet, Pickett, Buford, and Hancock. The most inspiring figure in the book, however, is Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, whose 20th Maine regiment of volunteers held the Union's left flank on the second day of the battle. This unit's bravery at Little Round Top helped turned the tide of the war against the rebels. There are also plenty of maps, which convey a complete sense of what happened July 1-3, 1863.

A bracing account of a war that lingers in our collective memory as both ambiguous and unjustly ignored
For Americans, it was a discrete conflict lasting from 1950 to 1953 that has long been overshadowed by World War II, Vietnam, and the War on Terror. But as Bruce Cumings eloquently explains, for the Asian world the Korean War was a generations-long fight that still haunts contemporary events. And in a very real way, although its true roots and repercussions continue to be either misunderstood, forgotten, or willfully ignored, it is the war that helped form modern America’s relationship to the world.
With access to new evidence and secret materials from both here and abroad, including an archive of captured North Korean documents, Cumings reveals the war as it was actually fought. He describes its start as a civil war, preordained long before the first shots were fired in June 1950 by lingering fury over Japan’s occupation of Korea from 1910 to 1945. Cumings then shares the neglected history of America’s post–World War II occupation of Korea, the untold stories of bloody insurgencies and rebellions, and the powerful militaries organized and equipped by America and the Soviet Union in that divided land. He tells of the United States officially entering the action on the side of the South, and exposes as never before the appalling massacres andatrocities committed on all sides and the “oceans of napalm” dropped on the North by U.S. forces in a remarkably violent war that killed as many as four million Koreans, two thirds of whom were civilians.
In sobering detail, The Korean War chronicles a U.S. home front agitated by Joseph McCarthy, where absolutist conformity discouraged open inquiry and citizen dissent. Cumings incisively ties our current foreign policy back to Korea: an America with hundreds of permanent military bases abroad, a large standing army, and a permanent national security state at home, the ultimate result of a judicious and limited policy of containment evolving into an ongoing and seemingly endless global crusade.
Elegantly written and blisteringly honest, The Korean War is, like the war it illuminates, brief, devastating, and essential.
From the Hardcover edition.

第二次世界大战是一次1939年至1945年所爆发的全球性军事冲突，整场战争涉及到全球绝大多数的国家，最终分成了两个彼此对立的军事同盟——同盟国和轴心国。这次战争是历史上最大规模的战争，也是人类历史上死亡人数最多的战争。作者丘吉尔重塑了战时氛围，让读者有亲临其境之感。他的撼动人心的讲演、统领全局的才略、把握时机的果断，在全书中都一一体现。全书语言紧凑，内容详实，是读者了解第二次世界大战历史的优选读本。

The Allied airborne and amphibious landings in Normandy on D-Day on June 6, 1944, opened up the long-awaited Second Front against Nazi Germany, but after overcoming the German coastal defenses at Utah and "Bloody Omaha," the US Army found itself having to contest every hedgerow and street in a nightmarish battle of attrition. Even once Normandy had been secured for the Western Allies, the grueling battles on the Siegfried Line, the Ardennes, and elsewhere would test both sides to the limit before the Germans' unconditional surrender of May 1945.

Featuring full-color artwork, specially drawn maps, and archive photographs, this study offers key insights into the tactics, leadership, combat performance, and subsequent reputations of six representative US and German infantry battalions pitched into three pivotal actions that determined the course of the campaign for mastery in Western Europe at the height of World War II.

It was the humble infantrymen of both sides who would play a vital role in taking and holding key objectives, from the hedgerow warfare around the key French port of Cherbourg in June 1944 to the struggle for Übach-Palenberg during the Allies' initial thrust into Germany in October and the savage cold-weather fighting of the Germans' Ardennes counter-offensive that December. Bitter lessons were learned and relearned by a succession of US divisions committed to the fighting, while the Germans found themselves forced to keep battered and under-strength formations in the front line until they were effectively destroyed by the relentless pressure of the Allied advance.

A first-hand account of the battle which became legendary in the annals of combat--a dramatic true story of war at its most brutal...and of military valor at its best.
"A distinguished contribution to the literature of war."-- The New York Times

With On to Petersburg, Gordon C. Rhea completes his much-lauded history of the Overland Campaign, a series of Civil War battles fought between Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee in southeastern Virginia in the spring of 1864. Having previously covered the campaign in his magisterial volumes on The Battle of the Wilderness, The Battles for Spotsylvania Court House and the Road to Yellow Tavern, To the North Anna River, and Cold Harbor, Rhea ends this series with a comprehensive account of the last twelve days of the campaign, which concluded with the beginning of the siege of Petersburg.
On to Petersburg follows the Union army’s movement to the James River, the military response from the Confederates, and the initial assault on Petersburg, which Rhea suggests marked the true end of the Overland Campaign. Beginning his account in the immediate aftermath of Grant’s three-day attack on Confederate troops at Cold Harbor, Rhea argues that the Union general’s primary goal was not―as often supposed―to take Richmond, but rather to destroy Lee’s army by closing off its retreat routes and disrupting its supply chains. While Grant struggled at times to communicate strategic objectives to his subordinates and to adapt his army to a faster-paced, more flexible style of warfare, Rhea suggests that the general successfully shifted the military landscape in the Union’s favor.
On the rebel side, Lee and his staff predicted rightly that Grant would attempt to cross the James River and lay siege to the Army of Northern Virginia while simultaneously targeting Confederate supply lines. Rhea examines how Lee, facing a better-provisioned army whose troops outnumbered Lee’s two to one, consistently fought the Union army to an impasse, employing risky, innovative field tactics to counter Grant’s forces.
Like the four volumes that preceded it, On to Petersburg represents decades of research and scholarship and will stand as the most authoritative history of the final battles in the campaign.

This book is based on the wartime recollections of Heathcoat S. Grant, captain of HMS Canopus from 1914–1916. It is published in conjunction with the War Letters 1914–1918 series. For anyone interested in the war at sea during the First World War, Grant provides a highly readable insider's view of the action at Coronel, the Battle of the Falklands and the attempt to force the Dardanelles.

A history of the battle at Guadalcanal draws on first-time translations of official Japanese defense accounts and declassified U.S. radio intelligence to recreate this critical campaign. Reprint. 25,000 first printing. NYT.

本书讲述了前线普通士兵鲜为人知的故事，为审视二战提供了全新的视角。被军方忽视、被历史遗忘的逃兵群体究竟有怎样曲折悲伤的经历？知名记者查尔斯·格拉斯深入挖掘军队档案、法庭记录、日记和回忆录，揭开了这段尘封的往事。
本书的写作手法和叙事节奏更像小说，作者原前线战士的真实经历。他记录的人物有列兵艾尔弗雷德·怀特黑德——一名美国田纳西州的农场小伙，曾在诺曼底英勇作战，荣获银星和铜星勋章——后来却在解放后的巴黎沦为匪徒，劫掠盟军补给站和普通市民。还有英军列兵约翰·贝恩，他曾战斗在北非和法国北部，双腿被德军机枪射伤；他从未逃避战斗，却又三次离开部队。核心人物是来自布鲁克林的列兵史蒂夫·韦斯，他入伍时还未满18岁。他随第36步兵师征战安齐奥滩头和阿登森林，还曾阴差阳错地加入了法国抵抗军。军旅生活打破了他对战争的崇高幻想，让他认清了美军军官的失误。