Juin 1916. Les tribus bédouines du Hedjaz se soulèvent contre l'occupant turc. Cet ouvrage relate l'épopée d'officiers et soldats français qui luttèrent aux côtés des Arabes insurgés et du célèbre colonel britannique T.E. Lawrence. Au-delà des faits d'armes, l'auteur fait ici le récit de la confrontation politique entre la France et la Grande-Bretagne pour le contrôle du Proche-Orient. Il accorde une attention particulière au duel sans merci que se livrèrent le lieutenant-colonel Brémond, chef de la mission française, et T.E. Lawrence, pour rivaliser d'influence auprès des leaders de la révolte arabe.

⭐村上春树推崇备至，毛姆文学奖、E.M.福斯特奖得主 ⭐英国国民作家杰夫·戴尔 独一无二的战争书写 ⭐一部经典的大战沉思录 战争若不是由墓园、战壕、迷雾、仪式、雕塑和诗歌所合谋编织，它的实质又是什么？ 【内容简介】 这和任何一本关于大战的书都不一样。《寻踪索姆河》描绘了作者杰夫·戴尔去拜访旧日战场和战争纪念馆的经历，并陈列了一众和战争有关的图像、影像、诗歌、文本。杰夫·戴尔分析它们、解构它们，试图从中找到战争被叙述和呈现的线索。他发现，在战争还未开始之前，战争的集体记忆就已经在被官方的话语所塑造。 杰夫·戴尔用长诗一样时而繁复、时而干脆的语句，带领读者步入往日的战壕，打开关于大战记忆的谜团和修辞结构。他用自己的方式向我们展示了现代的人类和大战余震所产生的种种关系，以及我们应该如何审慎地去理解这些关系。

In 1914 Vera Brittain was eighteen and, as war was declared, she was preparing to study at Oxford. Four years later her life - and the life of her whole generation - had changed in a way that was unimaginable in the tranquil pre-war era. TESTAMENT OF YOUTH, one of the most famous autobiographies of the First World War, is Brittain's account of how she survived the period; how she lost the man she loved; how she nursed the wounded and how she emerged into an altered world. A passionate record of a lost generation, it made Vera Brittain one of the best-loved writers of her time.

The untold story of how the First World War shaped the lives, faith, and writings of J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis The First World War laid waste to a continent and permanently altered the political and religious landscape of the West. For a generation of men and women, it brought the end of innocence—and the end of faith. Yet for J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, the Great War deepened their spiritual quest. Both men served as soldiers on the Western Front, survived the trenches, and used the experience of that conflict to ignite their Christian imagination. Had there been no Great War, there would have been noHobbit, no Lord of the Rings, no Narnia, and perhaps no conversion to Christianity by C. S. Lewis. Unlike a generation of young writers who lost faith in the God of the Bible, Tolkien and Lewis produced epic stories infused with the themes of guilt and grace, sorrow and consolation. Giving an unabashedly Christian vision of hope in a world tortured by doubt and disillusionment, the two writers created works that changed the course of literature and shaped the faith of millions. This is the first book to explore their work in light of the spiritual crisis sparked by the conflict.

Frère d'âme * Prix Goncourt des Lycéens* Un matin de la Grande Guerre, Le capitaine Armand siffle l’attaque contre l’ennemi allemand. Les soldats s’élancent. Parmi eux, Alfa Ndiaye et Mademba Diop, deux tirailleurs sénégalais parmi tous ceux qui se battent alors sous le drapeau français. Quelques mètres après avoir jailli de la tranchée, Mademba tombe, blessé à mort, sous les yeux d’Alfa, son ami d’enfance, son plus que frère. Alfa se retrouve seul dans la folie du grand massacre, sa raison s’enfuit. Lui, le paysan d’Afrique, va distribuer la mort sur cette terre sans nom. Détaché de tout, y compris de lui-même, il répand sa propre violence, sème l’effroi, tranche les mains de ses ennemis qu’il conserve comme autant de trophées. Au point d’effrayer ses camarades. Son évacuation à l’arrière est le prélude à une remémoration de son passé en Afrique, tout un monde à la fois perdu et ressuscité, dont la convocation fait figure d'ultime et splendide résistance à la première grande boucherie de l’ère moderne.

At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.

他看见，他讲述。一代年轻的生命在死亡的怀抱中奋力燃烧。 …… 这一次，“真实”的战争体验将如雪崩一般轰鸣而来。 《美丽与哀愁：第—次世界大战个人史》是瑞典作家皮特•恩格伦的非虚构文学力作，也是一部战争史书，它发源于一个问题：战争是怎样的感觉？皮特•恩格伦无意复述将帅们的功绩，他将全部目光投向那些被遮蔽的小人物——他选择23个来自不 同阶级、国家、阵营的普通人作为主角，由他们的生命史抵达“真实”的战争。 在那场裹挟世界、疯狂厮杀的大战中，他们有过希望、愤怒、同情、悲哀，然后死在无不为人之的地方，变成故纸堆中的数字——他们不是操控战争的人，而是了解战争是什么感觉的普通人。 他们是亢奋或消沉的士兵、对战争游戏抱有幻想的探险家、成为医疗组织司机的知识女性、后方的主妇与儿童、作家、冷眼观察军政人物的公务员；他们之中有的成为英雄，有的死伤，有的陷入疯狂。 “死亡是那么寂静……”他们的声音不曾进入公众的听觉，只是在死神敲门时急切地写着日记或书信，而皮特•恩格伦找回小人物被遮蔽、被遗忘的声音，还原“一战”中的一天天。所谓历史，正是这些平凡人物感受的小时刻。 …… ***【编辑推荐】*** ★轰动海内外文坛的非虚构文学力作，战争文学在21世纪的新高峰。 在海外，这部书获得历史畅销书《耶路撒冷三千年》作者西蒙·蒙蒂菲奥里等当红作家、历史学者、近百家媒体的赞誉，美、英、法、德等30国争相出版，更使得世界读者在各大书籍网站高分荐读。 在国内，莫言、阎连科、贾平凹、金宇澄……中国文坛超一线作家盛赞推荐，称其“令人肃然起敬”，甚至被认为是“一个新的去向和范例”。 . ★刀锋般锐利的文字，一场献给敏感动物的文学盛宴。 作者皮特·恩格伦是诺贝尔文学奖颁发机构“瑞典学院”院士、常任秘书——他是一个与文学殿堂无比亲近的人。他的文字丰沛而不煽情，情绪的炸弹一旦掷出，就“稳准狠”地击中读者，常常震得人寒毛立起，令这部非虚构作品被赞誉为“伟大的小说”。 . ★每一个“小人物”都值得被注视，而注视的尽头是泪水。 已经有太多英雄人物的传奇，人们需要一种新的角度来切入一场把一代人逼入绝望的巨变：以普通小人物的角度。在这里你会看到，普通人的一生未必不如“大人物”的精彩，他们真诚朴素的语言也不输诗人。在这本书中，历史是柔软的，一代年轻人的青春、幻想、希望、人性或者生命，都在熠熠生辉。 . ★在一蔬一饭中，战争如生活本身一般真实。 战争是怎样的感觉？后人的追述往往失真，亲历者的战时日记、家书、照片是更“真实”的证据，它们拥有生活的质地，带回不同的阶层、国家、阵营的声音，从西线战壕到东非战地，甚至青岛附近的海域，战争被遮蔽的一面轰然出现——它们已经被错过太久，这次不应再被错过。 . ★ 中文简体版历时3年，以匠心打磨高品质图书。 中文版曾荣获台湾开卷好书奖2014年度好书（翻译类），又经作者好友、翻译家万之先生对照瑞典文版历时1年精心审校，确保译文的准确与优美。 作者为中文简体版专门作序，还为中文版特别收录作家卡夫卡、穆齐尔的战时经历，以及发生在青岛的战事。 …… ***【名人推荐】*** ★我认为真实的战争不在关于战争的历史和教科书里，而在亲历过、目睹过战争的小人物的记忆里。在他们的记忆里我们可以知道硝烟刺鼻的气味、耳膜被炮弹震破的宁静、看到敌人被自己射中的感受、看到战友死去的感受以及许多单凭想像无法得到的细节。而这一切，是奠定战争文学大厦的基础。皮特·恩格伦这部《美丽与哀愁》就是关于那次战争中的个体记忆集合，也是在战争这个特殊环境里人性的复杂呈现。 ——莫言（作家，诺贝尔文学奖得主） ★《美丽与哀愁》的浩瀚与细腻令人惊讶，但对我而言，是这部巨著告诉了我一种新的文学样式的开张和铺排：它让个人的针线，穿越人类战争的缝隙，使得每个弱小的个体和家庭的惆怅、牺牲与光辉，都有了世界性和人类史的意义。毫无疑问，它做为文本的独特存在，将成为我今后写作中的一个新的去向和范例。 ——阎连科（作家，卡夫卡文学奖得主） ★皮特·恩格伦对“真实”有惊人的掌控力，他布下一个细密的罗网，笼罩了日常对话和私信的所有趣味，同时也笼罩了读者。平凡人物的不平凡，累积着无数的记忆，《美丽与哀愁》，呈现和释放了这些能量和魅力，这是困难的写作，令人肃然起敬。 ——金宇澄（作家，茅盾文学奖得主） ★战争其实并不只是大人物的事情，而是千百万小人物的命运悲歌。战争中有美丽的人性，也有哀愁的人性。 ——贾平凹（作家，茅盾文学奖得主） ★《美丽与哀愁》，与其说是“世界大战个人史”，不如说是个体处在世界大战之中。它反映的面相远非格式化作品所能及，让人大开眼界、无比震惊，而作者的冷峻、不动声色，更增添这一画面之复杂、丰富、纠缠……一部需要细细品味的作品，别轻易放过每一个细节。 ——刘苏里（北京万圣书园创始人） ★一本伟大的书。书中的几十个人物和他们各自的命运，就如同天罗地网中扭曲、爆炸、碎裂的子弹、炸弹、原子弹……战争则退后为一个遥远而模糊的背景。而凡是成为背景的东西，即使电闪雷鸣，波涛汹涌，也总是有着更为庞大而宁静的特征。硝烟散去，一个真正的问题终于凸显出来——作为暴力物种的人类和衍生品：战争，它们，到底是什么？ ——朱文颖（作家，代表作《莉莉姨妈的细小南方》等） ★皮特·恩格伦是当代讲述战术、杀戮、战争心理至为杰出的一位作家。──西蒙·蒙蒂菲奥里（《耶路撒冷三千年》作者） ★研究战争四十年来，我从来没有读过像这样一本了不起的书。──杰拉德·德格鲁特（圣安德鲁大学历史学教授） ★一次又一次，他仅借着少数几个简单鲜明的字眼，就能够召唤出当时的氛围。我热爱所有的细节……令人深感振奋。──玛格丽特·福斯特（英国历史学家、作家） ★ 对“一战”中的个人体验，进行了广泛而丰富的拼贴。——安东尼·比弗（《保卫斯大林格勒》作者） ★读完之后仍会在脑海中久久萦绕不去。冲击力极强。──朱丽叶·加德纳（《伦敦大轰炸》作者） ★他们被称为失落的一代，但你会在这里面找到他们的故事。──《纽约邮报》 ★一部文学著作，同时也是一部历史著作。——英国《卫报》 ★强大且具说服力。在众多关于“一战”的书当中，这部书的原创性令人注目。恩格伦的书几乎每一页都新颖且具启发性。──英国《每日快报》 ★一部精致的书……有冒险，有战斗，但也有数不清的寂静沉思，精细观察下的街道、餐厅、车站以及荒芜的战场……精炼、抒情、华美、尖锐并且具备无穷无尽的吸引力。——《科克斯书评》 ★恩格伦的作品很细致。做为一位历史学家，他有着令人惊叹的技能。但另一面的恩格伦，是一位散文作家，精心细致，贴近人心，是位厉害的说书人。──西班牙《必读》 ★这些人的生活既可怕又激动人心，在恩格伦用一个个小时刻所累计的细节里，他们的生命无比鲜活。──《纽约时报》 ★恩格伦以鲜活的历史、非常规的战争视角，塑造了上个世纪……他发现了那些精彩人物背后的故事。——《波士顿环球报》 ★这本不凡的书就像伟大的小说，将美丽和哀愁呈现得既普遍又具体。数百则“一战”时期怪诞、感人、难以承受且惊人的事件……恩格伦将原本隐匿在历史和地理中的个体经验释放出来，将细节营造得像交响乐。──《星期日邮报》

Now a major French film Au revoir là-haut - Prix Goncourt-winning masterpiece by the writer who brought you Alex, Irène and Camille. October 1918: the war on the Western Front is all but over. Desperate for one last chance of promotion, the ambitious Lieutenant Henri d'Aulnay Pradelle sends two scouts over the top, and secretly shoots them in the back to incite his men to heroic action once more. And so is set in motion a series of devastating events that will inextricably bind together the fates and fortunes of Pradelle and the two soldiers who witness his crime: Albert Maillard and Édouard Péricourt. Back in civilian life, Albert and Édouard struggle to adjust to a society whose reverence for its dead cannot quite match its resentment for those who survived. But the two soldiers conspire to enact an audacious form of revenge against the country that abandoned them to penury and despair, with a scheme to swindle the whole of France on an epic scale. Meanwhile, believing her brother killed in action, Édouard's sister Madeleine has married Pradelle, who is running a little scam of his own... Translated from the French by Frank Wynne Review The vast sweep of the novel and its array of extraordinary secondary characters have attracted comparisons with the works of Balzac. Moving, angry, intelligent - and compulsive (Marcel Berlins The Times) A big, swirling tale that itself reads like a 19th-century novel ... thick with detail, immersing the reader in its elaborately bleak world (Sarah Lyall New York Times) This book is thick with detail, immersing the reader in its elaborately bleak world ... an irresistible story (Patricia Wall New York Times) Exceptionally powerful examination of the aftermath of war and of the people whose lives were washed away in its wake (Nick Rennison Sunday Times) Lemaitre's novel is a rare synthesis of the tragic and the comic - a masterclass in nail-biting suspense ... Frank Wynne is a superb translator who captures the rude exuberance of the original French (Edward Wilson Independent) Lemaitre's deadpan ironic tone is beautifully caught by his regular translator Frank Wynne. A kind of Ealing comedy with a bruised but still beating heart, this is the most purely enjoyable book I've read this year (Jake Kerridge Sunday Express) A fast-paced tale, filled with twists and turns, following a mischievous, disillusioned view of post-war France (Astrid de Larminat Figaro) A masterly epic of post-war France, where impostures triumph and capitalists grow rich from the ruins (Macha Séry Le Monde) You feel the author's indignation ... Who really profits from war? Crooks, the vengeful and frauds: The Great Swindle is political as much as it is picaresque (Christine Ferniot Télérama) A dark, burning requiem delivered in glorious prose that is as tough and effective as a punch in the face ... Read this riotous novel: it will leave you stunned (François Busnel Express)

Rarely is a book published that revises our understanding of an entire world region and the history that has defined it. This groundbreaking volume makes just such a contribution. Neil Faulkner draws on ten years of field research to offer the first truly multidisciplinary history of the conflicts that raged in Sinai, Arabia, Palestine, and Syria during the First World War. In Lawrence of Arabia’s War, the author rewrites the history of T. E. Lawrence’s legendary military campaigns in the context of the Arab Revolt. He explores the intersections among the declining Ottoman Empire, the Bedouin tribes, nascent Arab nationalism, and Western imperial ambition. The book provides a new analysis of Ottoman resilience in the face of modern industrialized warfare, and it assesses the relative weight of conventional operations in Palestine and irregular warfare in Syria. Faulkner thus reassesses the historic roots of today’s divided, fractious, war-torn Middle East.

First published privately in 1929 as "The Middle Parts of Fortune", "Her Privates We" is the novel of the Battle of the Somme told from the perspective of an ordinary private. This edition now restores all the 'prunings and excisions' that were made to the first edition because the bluntness of language was thought to make the book unfit for public distribution. An undisputed classic of war writing and a lasting tribute to all who participated in the war, "Her Privates We" was originally published as written by 'Private 19022'. Championed by amongst others Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, TS Eliot and TE Lawrence, it has become recognised as a classic in the seventy years since its first publication. Now republished, with an introduction by William Boyd, it will again amaze a new generation of readers.

The 1916 Battle of the Somme remains the most famous battle of World War I, remembered for its bloodshed and its limited territorial gains. What is often overlooked, however, is the literary importance of the Somme: more writers and poets fought in it than in any other battle in history. Narrated by Michael Sheen, War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme details the experiences of the poets and writers who served in the battle. The work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg and JRR Tolkien (who arrived at the Western Front with ambitions to be a poet) was informed and transformed by the battle. Taken together, their experiences allow us to see this dreadful historical event through multiple points of view. War of Words: Soldier-Poets of the Somme uses animation, documentary accounts, surviving artefacts, battalion war diaries and the landscape itself to reconnect this literature to the events that inspired it.

★ 22个自由意志撞上时代宿命，捕捉世界重启时的希望与幻灭 ★ 从希望到绝望的彗星年代：世界从未如此充满希望，人类也从未这般迷茫 ★ 《纽约时报》《泰晤士报》齐荐，荣获英国《金融时报》2018年年度好书（评论员精选） ★ 纪念一战结束百年回首之作：100年过去了，世界变得更好了吗？ · 1918年11月11日，法国元帅费迪南·福煦和德意志代表马蒂亚斯·埃茨贝格尔在停战协定上签字，第一次世界大战正式结束。 这一天，德国士兵鲁道夫·赫斯从前线赶回战败的祖国，美国军官哈里·杜鲁门正懒洋洋地享受着蓝莓蛋糕和胜利，英国作家弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫在日记中抱怨安静的生活被庆祝所打破。 所有人都背负不同的过去，面临相同的现实，迎向未知的未来：福煦在和平时期被人遗忘；埃茨贝格尔回国后遭遇刺杀；赫斯成为奥斯维辛集中营指挥官；杜鲁门退伍参政，以总统身份参与另一场世界大战；伍尔夫再也难寻内心的安静，直到投河自尽…… 全书包括了超过20位历史人物，包括但不限于以下这些人物在1918年至1923年的不同遭遇和走向：胡志明、甘地、托马斯·爱德华·劳伦斯（“阿拉伯的劳伦斯”原型）、乔治·格罗兹（德国讽刺画家）、阿诺德·勋伯格（著名作曲家）等等。通过整理书信、日记和相关报道，以人物私人视角来重新还原他们当时眼中的世界。借以蒙太的叙事手法，作者不仅向我们讲述了这些人在影响世界走向之前的故事，并且将他们的命运串联起来，表现了1918年至1923年这个特殊的历史转折时期。 1918这一年就如同彗星般炽焰燃烧又稍纵即逝，整个世界被撕裂成两半，人类处于激情和消沉、狂喜和毁灭之间。千万种可能性在前方招手，所有人将要为一个不确定的未来开始奋斗，或挣扎。 · 丹尼尔·舍恩普夫卢格以一种吸引读者跟随其后的写法，让人进入那难以置信的一年：1918年。通过绝佳的品味、对细节的敏锐和对庞大结构的掌握能力，他重新开启了那个时代，并让他的读者们在书中重新发现自己和20世纪。——菲利普·布罗姆，知名历史学家 在不同的时光中，喧嚣的时间（狠狠地）盖下了它的印迹。舍恩普夫卢格引领读者经历了自己的命运，如此急切，历历在目，如同它刚刚发生一般。——西比勒·列维查洛芙，毕希纳得奖作家 从每天送到英国《金融时报》办公室的麻袋中挑出一本书，几乎是不可能的任务。在最近抵达的众多优秀作品中，我特别喜欢丹尼尔·舍恩普夫卢格的《彗星年代》。通过对一战直接后果的研究，舍恩普夫卢格给原本熟悉的故事提供了新鲜又多样的视角，提醒我们在大屠杀和混乱中曾诞生过一段乐观且充满希望的短暂时光。——弗雷德里克·斯图德曼，英国《金融时报》文学编辑

Craiglockhart War Hospital， Scotland， 1917， where army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen， as well as mute Billy Prior， who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. Rivers job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Yet the closer he gets to mending his patients minds the harder becomes every decision to send them back to the horrors of the front. "Regeneration" is the classic exploration of how the traumas of war brutalised a generation of young men. The first book in the "Regeneration" trilogy.

Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel is translated by Michael Hofmann in Penguin Modern Classics. 'As though walking through a deep dream, I saw steel helmets approaching through the craters. They seemed to sprout from the fire-harrowed soil like some iron harvest.' A memoir of astonishing power, savagery and ashen lyricism, Storm of Steel depicts Ernst Jünger's experience of combat on the front line - leading raiding parties, defending trenches against murderous British incursions, and simply enduring as shells tore his comrades apart. One of the greatest books to emerge from the catastrophe of the First World War, it illuminates like no other book not only the horrors but also the fascination of a war that made men keep fighting for four long years.

This “richly textured biography” (Chicago Tribune) inspired the mesmerizing documentary, Letters from Baghdad, soon to air on public television. Here is the story of Gertrude Bell, who explored, mapped, and excavated the Arab world throughout the early twentieth century. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in obtaining the loyalty of Arab leaders, and her connections and information provided the brains to match T. E. Lawrence's brawn. After the war, she played a major role in creating the modern Middle East and was, at the time, considered the most powerful woman in the British Empire. In this masterful biography, Janet Wallach shows us the woman behind these achievements–a woman whose passion and defiant independence were at odds with the confined and custom-bound England she left behind. Too long eclipsed by Lawrence, Gertrude Bell emerges at last in her own right as a vital player on the stage of modern history, and as a woman whose life was both a heartbreaking story and a grand adventure.

The year 2000 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Great War and Modern Memory, winner of the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and recently named by the Modern Library one of the twentieth century's 100 Best Non-Fiction Books. Fussell's landmark study of WWI remains as original and gripping today as ever before: a literate, literary, and illuminating account of the Great War, the one that changed a generation, ushered in the modern era, and revolutionized how we see the world. Exploring the work of Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden, David Jones, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen, Fussell supplies contexts, both actual and literary, for those writers who most effectively memorialized WWI as an historical experience with conspicuous imaginative and artistic meaning. For this special edition, the author has prepared a new afterword and a suggested further reading list. As this classic work draws upon several disciplines--among them literary studies, military history, cultural criticism, and historical inquiry--it will continue to appeal to students, scholars, and general readers of various backgrounds.

本书栩栩如生地重现了第一次世界大战的中东，描写奥斯曼帝国在第一次世界大战中扮演的角色。中东是地缘政治的关键，奥斯曼帝国得到德国金钱、武器和军事顾问的支持，向英法俄军队开战。土耳其人在加利波利、美索不达米亚和加沙，给协约国以决定性的打击，然而战局逆转。巴格达、耶路撒冷、大马士革相继陷落。战后胜利者瓜分奥斯曼帝国，种下了现代阿拉伯世界永无止境的冲突根源。

Peopled with larger-than-life figures such as Winston Churchill (around whom the story is structured), General Kitchener and T.E. Lawrence, Gertrude Bell, Attaturk, Emir Feisal and Lloyd George the book describes the showdown with the Ottoman Empire which erupted into the devastating Eastern campaign of World War I and led to the formation - by bureaucracy and subterfuge by Americans and Europeans - of the states known collectively as the Middle East. The years 1914-1922 were the creative, formative years when everything seemed possible, but the events of 1922, the pivotal year, set the course for a future of endless wars and acts of terrorism that became the legacy of this period. Issues such as The Allenby Declaration establishing nominal independence for Egypt, the Palestine Mandate and the Churchill White Paper (from which Israel and Jordan sprang), the installing of Hashemite leaders of predominantly Shi'ite teritories, new leaders for Egypt and Iraq, the Russian declaration of a Soviet Union intent on re-establishing her rule over Moslem Central Asia - David Fromkin shows how all these changed the Middle East (and Europe) forever.