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Through history armies of occupation and civil power have been repeatedly faced with the challenges of insurgency. US involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan has highlighted this form of conflict in the modern world. Armies, sometimes reluctantly, have had to

The Korean War was a significant turning point in the Cold War. This book explains how the conflict in a small peninsula in East Asia had a tremendous impact on the entire international system and the balance of power between the two superpowers, America

From National Book Award-winning, New York Times-bestselling author Louise Erdrich, a profound and enchanting new novel: a richly imagined world “where butchers sing like angels.”

Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet Germ

Written at a time when violence has many faces and goes by many names, this collection is proof that philosophy can remain a vital partner in the twin tasks of diagnosis and action. Emerging across specters of genocide, racism, oppression, terror, poverty

In this new installment in his series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the Nez Perce War, with flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at every turn,

In 1982 William T. Vollmann, one of our most versatile talents, traveled to see the war in Afghanistan. In An Afghanistan Picture Show, his first book-length work of non-fiction, Vollmann paints a brutally honest and dryly comic portrait of a young Americ

The new novel from the winner of the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, The Hired Man is a taut, powerful novel of a small town and its dark wartime secrets, unwittingly brought into the light by a family of outsiders.

Aminatta Forna has established herself

"This wonderful hybrid of a novel--a love story, a war story, a novel of manners--introduces a writer of enchanting gifts, a beautiful heart wedded to a beautiful imagination. How else does Susan Choi so fully inhabit characters from disparate backgr

1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a "surplus woman," one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herse

"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither . . . o

Michael Mahana's personal disclosure to his parents leads to the uncovering of another family secret-about his uncle, Sam, who had fought in the Vietnam War.
Now, armed with his uncle's diary, Michael goes searching for the truth about his uncl

Richly imaginative and original, weaving together fact and fiction, The Parihaka Woman sets the remarkable story of Erenora against the historical background of the turbulent and compelling events that occurred in Parihaka during the 1870s and 1880s.

作者：Lisa Scottoline

书名：Eternal

简介：#1 bestselling author Lisa Scottoline offers a sweeping and shattering epic of historical fiction fueled by shocking true

作者：Gary Paulsen

标题：Dancing Carl《舞蹈的Carl》

简介：In the winter, life in McKinley, Minnesota, revolves around the rinks, where kids play hockey and grown-up

作者：Gary Paulsen

标题：The Quilt(Alida #3)《被子》

简介：A six-year-old boy goes to spend the summer with his grandmother Alida in a small town near the Canadian

作者：Gary Paulsen

标题：The Monument《纪念碑》

简介：It all begins when Rocky follows Mick Strum around town while he sketches its people, animals and graveyard. M

作者：Gary Paulsen

标题：The Crossing《交叉世界》

简介：A critically acclaimed tearjerker from a master storyteller: On one side of the border is brutality and hear

作者：Gary Paulsen

标题：The Car《汽车》

简介：Neglected by his parents, fourteen-year-old Terry Anders is used to taking care of things on his own. He even manages

作者：Gary Paulsen

标题：Soldier's Heart: Being the Story of the Enlistment and Due Service of the Boy Charley Goddard in the First Minnesota Volunteers《战士

作者：Gary Paulsen

标题：Woods Runner

简介：Samuel, 13, spends his days in the forest, hunting for food for his family. He has grown up on the frontier of a Britis

作者：Jeffery Deaver

标题：Garden of Beasts《百兽园》

简介：Paul Schumann, a German-American living in New York City in 1936, is a mobster hit man known equally for

作者：Luo Guanzhong

书名：The Romance of the Three Kingdoms(Four Great Classic Novels of China)《三国演义》

简介：A new translation and abridgment of one of the fou

作者：Graham Allison

书名：Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?《注定一战:美国和中国能否逃脱修昔底德陷阱》

简介：CHINA AND TH

作者：Andrew Roberts

书名：Napoleon: A Life《拿破仑：一生》

简介：The definitive biography of the great soldier-statesman by the New York Times bestselling author