1953 film by Billy Wilder

2019 film directed by Taika Waititi

The story of the Battle of Midway, and the leaders and soldiers who used their instincts, fortitude and bravery to overcome massive odds.

故事发生在1942年的夏天，瓦斯柯夫准尉（皮欧特·费奥多罗夫 Pyotr Fyodorov 饰）带领着他的女机枪手们驻扎在一处偏远的村庄中，某日，班长丽达（阿纳斯塔西娅·米库齐娜 Anastasiya Mikulchina 饰）意外的撞破了两个德国士兵要袭击苏联重要军事基地的阴谋，她火速将这一消息带回了部队中。
瓦斯柯夫准尉带领着丽萨（索菲亚·列别杰娃 Sofya Lebedeva 饰）、迦尔卡（克里斯蒂娜·阿斯姆斯 Kristina Asmus 饰）、索妮娅（雅戈尼娅·库兹涅佐娃 Agniya Kuznetsova 饰）、冉妮娅（叶夫根尼娅·马拉霍娃 Zhenya Malakhova 饰）和丽达，这五名部队里的精锐人员前往丛林之中一探究竟，等待着姑娘们的，除了狡猾的敌人外，还有非常恶劣的自然环境。

During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.

During the Allied invasion of Italy in World War II, six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley. These tales follow the interactions between American soldiers and Italian civilians as they navigate their way through language barriers and cultural differences.

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

The 400 million people of China are heirs to a great civilization, as their pagodas and stone lions can attest. But they are under attack from the Japanese. Civilian refugees walk, stumble, crawl to escape the destruction of their cities... While in the China of tradition, water buffalo still work the paddies and camels cross the desert, modern China is now a republic founded by Dr. Sun Yat-sen, with modern schools, heavy industry, large engineering projects... The government of Chiang Kai-shek resists the Japanese invasion from the coast. Madame Chiang receives a cheque from the U.S.A. for war relief. War production continues in distant villages safe from the grasp of the Japanese. With modern weapons the Chinese are pursuing their struggle behind enemy lines. And still their opponent persists in his reprisal bombings of civilian targets. "Will these people win?"

1998 film by Max Färberböck

A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.

《星期日泰晤士报》十佳畅销书
荣获英国笔会/赫塞尔-提尔曼历史图书奖
立足于八种语言的原始档案、访谈记录、学术著作，《野蛮大陆》如同一扇窗户，让我们得以窥见二战结束后、冷战开始前那个稍纵即逝的混乱年代。这是关于那个年代的第一部重要历史著作。
刻骨痛心。动人心弦、落笔审慎、荡气回肠。一幅引人注目的图画，描绘了一片在物质上、道德上因为残忍屠戮而变得残酷无情的欧洲大陆。
——多米尼克•桑德布鲁克，《星期日泰晤士报》
形象生动而笔调冷峻。这部杰出著作，为这片陷入无序和混乱的大陆，描绘了一幅鲜为人知、令人胆寒的画面。
——伊恩•克肖
精彩绝伦。才华横溢的构思，一丝不苟的研究……呈现出天才般的历史叙事。
——BBC历史频道
第二次世界大战给欧洲留下一片混乱。地形地貌被彻底改变，许多城市被夷为平地，数千万人惨遭屠戮。在欧洲大陆绝大多数地方，我们今天习以为常的机构——比如警察、传媒、交通、地方政府和全国政府——要么付之阙如，要么破败不堪。罪恶横行，经济崩溃，欧洲人挣扎在饥饿边缘。
在这部研究战后初年历史的开创性著作中，基思•罗威描绘了一片仍然被暴力缠绕的大陆，在那里，有相当部分民众仍未相信战争已然结束。他勾勒了道德败坏的沦亡景象，以及永不餍足的复仇渴望，这是长期冲突的后遗症。他描绘了种族清洗和国内战争，这些事件撕裂了从波罗的海到地中海的普通民众的生活，他还描绘了重新建立的世界秩序，最终为这片支离破碎的大陆带来稳定。他告诉我们，上述情形存在于整个欧洲——东欧如此，西欧亦然。

In a small town in Nazi-occupied Slovakia during World War II, decent but timid carpenter Tono is named "Aryan comptroller" of a button store owned by an old Jewish widow, Rozalie. Since the post comes with a salary and standing in the town's corrupt hierarchy, Tono wrestles with greed and guilt as he and Rozalie gradually befriend each other. When the authorities order all Jews in town to be rounded up, Tono faces a moral dilemma unlike any he's known before.

•一部135相机下的二战史
《失焦》中，卡帕回忆了1942年夏至1945年春他作为随军记者亲历的一系列重要战役——西西里战役、诺曼底登陆、解放巴黎、攻克柏林。书中，卡帕用照片记录下交战双方的普通士兵——弹坑中，病床上，空降前，抢滩后……还以文字生动描述了战场内外的巴顿、布莱德利、李奇微等二战名将。以战地记者的职业敏感，再现了战争中的小人物与大人物。
•收录卡帕二战中遗失之作，部分照片为国内首次公开
书中收录罗伯特•卡帕战地摄影作品87张。其中，1944年作家海明威车祸后养伤期间的照片，卡帕二战期间伦敦女友伊莲•贾斯汀（Elaine Justin）——小粉（Pinky）的照片，以及近年来重新发现的“二战遗失之作”为首次在罗伯特•卡帕中文出版物上呈现。
•全面修订书中摄影专业名词、军事术语，以及习语俚语翻译，兼顾时代性与经典性
书名《失焦》（Slightly Out of Focus）又内译为“焦点不太准”。如同书名的双关运用，卡帕的文风幽默诙谐，修辞运用收放自如。中文第3版结合英文初版对译文进行了全面修订，确保了语言风格上的“原汁原味”，并对部分摄影器材、武器装备、番号军衔、人名地名的译法进行了更正。
•纪念马格南图片社（Magnum Photos）成立70周年(1947—2017)，珍藏纪念版
《失焦》（珍藏纪念版）在装帧设计上回归经典，复刻新闻记者随身笔记簿的持久耐磨性。图书采用黑色粗纹皮面，圆脊精装，挑选针式打印机复古字体，裱封烫印，再现战地摄影之精神。
卡帕有着典型的冒险家的性格，他曾说过：“如果你拍得不够好，那是因为你离得不够近。”——这已成为摄影领域的“金句”之一，而他自己，则成为了战地摄影师的代名词。
《失焦》是罗伯特•卡帕亲历二战的摄影手记，作品忠实记录了他在战争中经历和感受到的一切。展卷阅读，有时会哑然失笑，而更多的时候，则会让人心情沉重。卡帕深深热爱生命，热爱和平，他厌恶战争，痛恨自己的职业——眼看着一个个年轻的生命，生死只在一瞬间，任谁也无法承受这种巨大的反差——尤其是当这种事情就发生在自己的身边，甚至随时会发生在自己身上时。然而卡帕却以近乎“冷酷无情”的冷静忠实地记录下这一切，他的文字，他的照片，无一不充分体现出这种冷静，而隐藏在冷静背后的，是用生命才能换取的勇气。

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.

1991 film directed by Lars von Trier

1969 film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville

看过《最长的一天》这部作品的人都曾被它深深震撼，作为非虚构文学的创作典范和世界战争纪实的巅峰之作，它真实记录了诺曼底登陆的策划内幕和激战过程，生动描述了血腥海水和钢铁火焰构成的战场奇观，还细致入微地写下了双方的将帅和士兵作为个人所遇到的传奇般的命运，以及在每个生死瞬间所经历的痛苦、迷狂和心惊胆战。

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1944, during World War II. Andries Riphagen, a powerful underworld boss, has made his fortune by putting his many criminal talents at the service of the Nazi occupiers. But the long battle is about to end and the freedom fighters, who have been persecuted and murdered for years, are abandoning their hideouts to mercilessly hunt down those who have collaborated with the killers.

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

Kurt Vonnegut’s masterpiece, Slaughterhouse-Five is “a desperate, painfully honest attempt to confront the monstrous crimes of the twentieth century” ( Time ).
 
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time
 
Slaughterhouse-Five , an American classic, is one of the world’s great antiwar books. Centering on the infamous World War II firebombing of Dresden, the novel is the result of what Kurt Vonnegut described as a twenty-three-year struggle to write a book about what he had witnessed as an American prisoner of war. It combines historical fiction, science fiction, autobiography, and satire in an account of the life of Billy Pilgrim, a barber’s son turned draftee turned optometrist turned alien abductee. As Vonnegut had, Billy experiences the destruction of Dresden as a POW. Unlike Vonnegut, he experiences time travel, or coming “unstuck in time.”

An instant bestseller, Slaughterhouse-Five made Kurt Vonnegut a cult hero in American literature, a reputation that only strengthened over time, despite his being banned and censored by some libraries and schools for content and language. But it was precisely those elements of Vonnegut’s writing—the political edginess, the genre-bending inventiveness, the frank violence, the transgressive wit—that have inspired generations of readers not just to look differently at the world around them but to find the confidence to say something about it. Authors as wide-ranging as Norman Mailer, John Irving, Michael Crichton, Tim O’Brien, Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Strout, David Sedaris, Jennifer Egan, and J. K. Rowling have all found inspiration in Vonnegut’s words. Jonathan Safran Foer has described Vonnegut as “the kind of writer who made people—young people especially—want to write.” George Saunders has declared Vonnegut to be “the great, urgent, passionate American writer of our century, who offers us . . . a model of the kind of compassionate thinking that might yet save us from ourselves.”

More than fifty years after its initial publication at the height of the Vietnam War, Vonnegut’s portrayal of political disillusionment, PTSD, and postwar anxiety feels as relevant, darkly humorous, and profoundly affecting as ever, an enduring beacon through our own era’s uncertainties.