In "The Sleepwalkers" acclaimed historian and author of Iron Kingdom, Christopher Clark, examines the causes of the First World War. Sunday Times Books of the Year 2012. The moments that it took Gavrilo Princip to step forward to the stalled car and shoot dead Franz Ferdinand and his wife were perhaps the most fateful of the modern era. An act of terrorism of staggering efficiency, it fulfilled its every aim: it would liberate Bosnia from Habsburg rule and it created a powerful new Serbia, but it also brought down four great empires, killed millions of men and destroyed a civilization. What made a seemingly prosperous and complacent Europe so vulnerable to the impact of this assassination? In "The Sleepwalkers" Christopher Clark retells the story of the outbreak of the First World War and its causes. Drawing on many fresh new sources, this account reveals a Europe very different from the familiar picture, putting Serbia and the Balkans at the centre of the story. Starting with the brutal assassination of Alexander I of Serbia in 1903, Clark shows how, far from being the place of enviable stability it appears to us, Europe was racked by chronic problems: a multipolar, fractured, multicultural world of clashing ideals, terrorism, militancy and instability, which was, fatefully, saddled with a conspicuously ineffectual set of political leaders. He shows how the rulers of Europe, who prided themselves on their modernity and rationalism, behaved like sleepwalkers, stumbling through crisis after crisis and finally convincing themselves that war was the only answer. Reviews: "Formidable ...one of the most impressive and stimulating studies of the period ever published". (Max Hastings, "Sunday Times"). "The arguments [Clark] sets out in this quite superb account of the causes of the First World War are so compelling that they effectively consign the old historical consensus to the bin ...a masterpiece. It's not often that one has the privilege of reading a book that reforges our understanding of one of the seminal events of world history". ("Mail Online"). "Impeccably researched, provocatively argued and elegantly written, his book is a model of scholarship". ("Sunday Times", Books of the Year 2012). "A brilliant contribution". ("Times Higher Education"). "Clark is fully alive to the challenges of the subject. Planting himself at the contingent end of the spectrum, he prefers to establish how the war happened rather than to explain why by means of hindsight ...It is a refreshing approach. He provides vivid portraits of leading figures ...[He] also gives a rich sense of what contemporaries believed was at stake in the crises leading up to the war". ("Irish Times"). About the author: Christopher Clark is Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St Catharine's College. He is the author of "The Politics of Conversion", "Kaiser Wilhelm II" and "Iron Kingdom". Widely praised around the world, "Iron Kingdom" became a major bestseller. He has been awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

精彩无比的一战经典之作，普利策奖委员会也为之“绕道”颁奖。 作者巴巴拉·塔奇曼被誉为“历史学者中的艺术家”，她的写作，令人沉浸、着迷。 是什么让世界踏进这场“不可能”发生的战争？肯尼迪总统从中汲取历史教训化解美苏危机。 【编辑推荐】 ★ 普利策奖获奖经典作品，以精彩笔法展现帝国时代的终结战“一战”是如何开启并迅速陷入僵局，叩问是什么让帝王、政客和将领踏进这场“不可能”发生的战争，影响冷战高潮时期美、英等国决策者，对当今世界同样具有深刻的启发意义。 ★ 以充满悬疑感的叙事手法和极富文学性的笔触还原历史场景，真正让人身临其境；深入挖掘信件、电报、日记甚至情书等资料，带读者走入时人内心，用极为人性的笔法刻画了一个个充满缺陷的决策者。 ★ 威廉·夏伊勒、费正清、肯尼迪总统，《纽约时报》、《华尔街日报》、《纽约客》、《卫报》等盛赞推荐，普利策奖得主、著名历史学者罗伯特·马西专文导读。 ★ 精选42幅一战关键人物和战时场景的珍贵照片；全新绘制10幅关键战役的作战地图。 ★ 梁文道、刘瑜、熊培云、许知远联袂主编——“理想国译丛”（MIRROR）系列之一（029）——保持开放性的思想和非功利的眼睛，看看世界的丰富性与复杂性。 【名家推荐】 当代最佳书籍之一……全书从头到尾都吸引着我。 ——威廉·夏伊勒，《第三帝国的兴亡》作者 《八月炮火》推出后立即洛阳纸贵，空前成功，书评争相推介，口碑迅速传开，吸引了成千上万的读者一睹为快。肯尼迪总统特别订了一本送给当时的英国首相麦克米伦，他的阅读心得是：当代政治家必须尽可能避免陷入1914年8月大战的陷阱。普利策奖捐款人已立下规章禁止颁发历史类奖项给主题与美国无关的著作，但是委员会还是找到名目，颁给作者塔奇曼“非虚构类奖”。《八月炮火》让作者一举成名，她的作品深入人心且文笔流畅优雅，但是大部分的读者只需要知道这本新书的作者是“巴巴拉·塔奇曼”这块金字招牌。 ——罗伯特·马西，历史学者，凭《彼得大帝》获普利策奖 大约在十多年前，我看到了巴巴拉·塔奇曼的著作《八月炮火》，初翻几页，就深深被作者气势恢宏却又细致入微的写作方法吸引住了。……她讲究遣词用句，既要文字言之成理，又要读者读之有味；她极注重营造气氛，让读者身临其境。她的书，潇洒精彩，干净利落，没有赘语，如同卡拉瓦乔式的洞察细腻和落笔精准，也有卡拉瓦乔的不拘一格。…… 当下中国出版界，各类粗制滥造的历史读物比比皆是，生动严谨的良心作品却是凤毛麟角，塔奇曼的著作，为那些热衷“编写”历史的作者提供了最好的借鉴。 ——姜鸣，历史学者 在大战（一战）爆发前夕，欧洲国家绝大多数的知识分子、金融家与企业主，都没有意识到他们与即将爆发的巨大危机只有一尺之隔，他们对于政治领袖与军事谋略家加诸于自己的战争浩劫风险浑然不觉。 《八月炮火》一书点出了许多让人深思的历史吊诡与荒谬。一批深谙治国之术与权力均衡游戏的统治精英，他们机关算尽，最后却无法避免让自己成为历史悲剧中的主角；他们精心布置的军事盟约与政治承诺，最后却成为冲突升高过程中的重力加速器。 —— 朱云汉，“中研院”院士，台湾大学政治系教授，美国政治学会理事 巴巴拉·塔奇曼的历史是自立的，根本用不着任何理论支持。它就是让读者着迷了，它让他们得以如此接近过去的历史，这接近的程度是前所未有的。 ——费正清，美国著名历史学者、汉学家 只要具有足够的艺术性，专业历史题材作品也可以达到文学的高度。这部著作极佳地阐释了这一点。 ——《纽约时报》 一部精彩的军事史，她笔下的一战首月，其精彩程度正如丘吉尔所说，“戏剧也无法企及”。 ——《新闻周刊》 比小说更具戏剧性……高超的叙述，精妙的结构，优雅的文笔，从始至终都保持极佳的节奏。 ——《芝加哥论坛报》 【内容简介】 一战终结了历史意义上的19世纪，标志着现代世界的开端。作为历史的转折点，“这个可怕8月的僵局，决定了其后战争的进程和达成和平的条件，并推动后来两次大战间情势的演变，以及第二次世界大战的发生”。但在大战爆发前夕，欧洲绝大多数政客、知识分子与企业主都没有意识到他们与即将爆发的巨大危机只有一尺之隔。 在这部普利策奖经典著作中，巴巴拉·塔奇曼透过生动的历史场景还原、丰富的细节勾勒以及坚实的史料支撑，精彩地展现了1914年8月期间危机的形成、爆发以及大战初期的战役，叩问了是什么让帝王、政客和将领踏进一场无人希望发生，且绝大多数人都认为不可能会发生的世界大战。本书面世后不久即发生了几乎引发核战争的“古巴导弹危机”，时任美国总统肯尼迪正是从本书中汲取了历史教训，使美苏和平化解了危机。这些历史教训对当今世界仍具有深刻的启发意义。 巴巴拉·塔奇曼以高超的叙事手法，带读者走入时人时事，忘记已知结局，使故事悬念感十足。她对人物的刻画尤其传神，且能冷静地跳过道德判断，避免苛责，用极为人性的笔法描述了一个个充满缺陷的人如何将世界引向希腊悲剧般的结局。

When Turkey unexpectedly sided with Germany in World War I, Winston Churchill, as Sea Lord for the British, conceived a plan: smash through the Dardanelles, reopen the Straits to Russia, and immobilize the Turks. On the night of March 18, 1915, this plan nearly succeeded -- the Turks were virtually beaten. But poor communication left the Allies in the dark, allowing the Turks to prevail and the Allies to suffer a crushing quarter-million casualties. A vivid chronicle of adventure, suspense, agony, and heroism, Gallipoli brings fully to life the tragic waste in human life, the physical horror, and the sheer heartbreaking folly of fighting for impossible objectives with inadequate means on unknown, unmapped terrain.

第一世界大战宣告了欧洲旧有国际格局的土崩瓦解，自文艺复兴以来生机勃勃、自信乐观的欧洲文化遭受重创，其影响甚至波及亚非广大殖民地，因而以一种前所未有的剧烈程度和影响范围塑造了现代世界。更重要的是，它种下了第二次世界大战爆发的种子。不理解这两次大战，就无法真正认识当今我们所处的世界。 约翰•基根以中文世界罕见的深度详述了一战的进程，对交战各方的总体战略、重大战役的战术方针、战争领袖的才干与局限、军事技术的发展、偶然因素的作用等等，均做出令人叹服的介绍与分析。更在单纯军事史的基础之上，关注战争的文化与政治维度，对战争中的“人”的因素寄予了深刻的同情，从而呈现出一幅令人激动、悲悯而又不得不反思的战争画卷。

2018 documentary film directed by Peter Jackson

第一次世界大战，英国军官中因不适应残酷的堑壕战而大量产生精神疾病，这些患者被送到后方一所带有疗养性质的精神病院接受治疗。其中包括《战争安魂曲》的词作者，诗人欧文（Wilfred Owen）。该片根据Pat Barker的同名小说改编而成，《重生》意味这一代年轻人从维多利亚时代刻板的爱国主义教育中清醒过来，意识并接受了他们的命运和使命。欧文后来重上战场，战死于终战前几天。他的诗作后来被大作曲家布里顿谱为经典清唱剧。后来被英国奇才导演贾尔曼拍为同名影片《战争安魂曲》 。

The First World War is one of history’s greatest tragedies. In this remarkable and intimate account, author G. J. Meyer draws on exhaustive research to bring to life the story of how the Great War reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of the world we live in today. The First World War is one of history’s greatest tragedies. In this remarkable and intimate account, author G. J. Meyer draws on exhaustive research to bring to life the story of how the Great War reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of the world we live in today. From the Hardcover edition.

The Sun Also Rises was Ernest Hemingway's first big novel, and immediately established Hemingway as one of the great prose stylists, and one of the preeminent writers of his time. It is also the book that encapsulates the angst of the post-World War I generation, known as the Lost Generation. This poignantly beautiful story of a group of American and English expatriates in Paris on an excursion to Pamplona represents a dramatic step forward for Hemingway's evolving style. Featuring Left Bank Paris in the 1920s and brutally realistic descriptions of bullfighting in Spain, the story is about the flamboyant Lady Brett Ashley and the hapless Jake Barnes. In an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions, this is the Lost Generation.

"There was no patriotism in the trenches. It was too remote a sentiment, and rejected as fit only for civilians. A new arrival who talked patriotism would soon be told to cut it out. As Blighty, Great Britain was a quiet, easy place to get back to out of the present foreign misery, but as a nation it was nothing." This is the original version of Robert Graves's intense memoir of the First World War, restoring this raw, emotionally truthful, darkly comic work to the way it was first written, by a young man still reeling from the trenches. 'We see the dark heart of the book even more clearly, and hear it beating even more loudly, in this original edition than we do in the comparatively careful and considered terms of the later one' Andrew Motion 'One of the most candid self-portraits, warts and all, ever painted' TLS

An evocation of the Edwardian age that has remained in print since its publication in 1928. It was the first volume of a classic trilogy, completed by "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer" and "Sherston's Progress", that charted the destruction of the world for which Sassoon fought.