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"The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril," wrote Winston Churchill in his monumental history of World War II. His fear was shared by many. The North Atlantic

"The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril," wrote Winston Churchill in his monumental history of World War Two. In many ways, the Atlantic shipping l

Honored as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library AssociationClash of Arms examines how the Western Allies learned?on the battlefield?to defeat the Nazi war machine. Beginning wit

Still sassy, Doris Gregory takes the reader back over seventy years to the time when she broke with tradition, first by publicly challenging the University of British Columbias discrimination against

World War II is usually seen as a titanic land battle, decided by mass armies, most importantly those on the Eastern Front. Phillips Payson O'Brien shows us the war in a completely different light. In this compelling new history of the Allied path to victory, he argues that in terms of production, technology and economic power, the war was far more a contest of air and sea than of land supremacy. He shows how the Allies developed a predominance of air and sea power which put unbearable pressure on Germany and Japan's entire war-fighting machine from Europe and the Mediterranean to the Pacific. Air and sea power dramatically expanded the area of battle and allowed the Allies to destroy over half of the Axis' equipment before it had even reached the traditional 'battlefield'. Battles such as El Alamein, Stalingrad and Kursk did not win World War II; air and sea power did.

Most of us rally around the glory of the Allies' victory over the Nazis in World War II. The story is often told of how the good fight was won by an astonishing array of manpower and stunning tactics.

Toppling Qaddafi is a carefully researched, highly readable look at the role of the United States and NATO in Libya's war of liberation and its lessons for future military interventions. Based on extensive interviews within the US government, this book recounts the story of how the United States and its European allies went to war against Muammar Qaddafi in 2011, why they won the war, and what the implications for NATO, Europe, and Libya will be. This was a war that few saw coming, and many worried would go badly awry, but in the end the Qaddafi regime fell and a new era in Libya's history dawned. Whether this is the kind of intervention that can be repeated, however, remains an open question - as does Libya's future and that of its neighbors.

Toppling Qaddafi is a carefully researched, highly readable look at the role of the United States and NATO in Libya's war of liberation and its lessons for future military interventions. Based on extensive interviews within the US government, this book recounts the story of how the United States and its European allies went to war against Muammar Qaddafi in 2011, why they won the war, and what the implications for NATO, Europe, and Libya will be. This was a war that few saw coming, and many worried would go badly awry, but in the end the Qaddafi regime fell and a new era in Libya's history dawned. Whether this is the kind of intervention that can be repeated, however, remains an open question - as does Libya's future and that of its neighbors.

“在戰爭中唯一讓我真正感到害怕的事情是U型潛艇的威脅。”溫斯頓•丘吉爾曾經在他的《不朽的二戰史》中寫道。丘吉爾的恐懼準確地表現了大西洋戰場的傷亡率高於整個戰爭中的任何其他戰場。敵人總是在那裡等待著，漂浮在海平面上或者潛伏在海浪之下。從許多方面來說，真正的激烈戰爭發生在大西洋航線上U型潛艇對美國船隻的攻擊。英國的生存依賴於美國的援助，而這其中大部分是通過船隻從海上運輸的。因而這條海上航線成為1940年至1945年間德國海軍作戰的主要目標，而大西洋海戰以及為之戰鬥的人成為雙方取得勝利的關鍵。只要德國成功地切斷美國船隻的供給，英國可能就不存在了。但是丘吉爾能夠早一點抽調海軍進行增援的話，也許成千上萬的生命就可以被挽救。這場戰役不是由一場而是由成百上千場戰鬥組成，從幾個小時到持續幾天不等，迫使雙方不斷採取新的對策和做出最壞的打算，並且拼命抓住每一次機會。一系列戰役中的任何事件的變化，都會影響到戰爭的結局和歐洲的未來，整個世界都會發生截然不同的改變。喬納森•丁布爾比的《大西洋海戰》對於這場戰役的描述詳細而又讓人身臨其境，他將其作為一個整體置於整個戰爭背景之下。丁布爾比鑽研了大西洋之戰雙方的政治，揭示了布萊切利園的作用以及英美雙方複雜和多變的關係。他還引用了當時領導和水手之間那些令人心寒的日記和信件，喚起了曾經參加二戰中那場最漫長戰役的人對於那段生活和經歷的記憶。此書是對大西洋之戰的權威報告。