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"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. There, I underwent a life-changing experience. As I walked the beaches with the American veterans who had returned for this anniversary, men in their sixties and seventies, and listened to their stories, I was deeply moved and profoundly grateful for all they had done. Ten years later, I returned to Normandy for the fiftieth anniversary of the invasion, and by then I had come to understand what this generation of Americans meant to history. It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced."

In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation, America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America. This generation was united not only by a common purpose, but also by common values--duty, honor, economy, courage, service, love of family and country, and, above all, responsibility for oneself. In this book, you will meet people whose everyday lives reveal how a generation persevered through war, and were trained by it, and then went on to create interesting and useful lives and the America we have today.

"At a time in their lives when their days and nights should have been filled with innocent adventure, love, and the lessons of the workaday world, they were fighting in the most primitive conditions possible across the bloodied landscape of France, Belgium, Italy, Austria, and the coral islands of the Pacific. They answered the call to save the world from the two most powerful and ruthless military machines ever assembled, instruments of conquest in the hands of fascist maniacs. They faced great odds and a late start, but they did not protest. They succeeded on every front. They won the war; they saved the world. They came home to joyous and short-lived celebrations and immediately began the task of rebuilding their lives and the world they wanted. They married in record numbers and gave birth to another distinctive generation, the Baby Boomers. A grateful nation made it possible for more of them to attend college than any society had ever educated, anywhere. They gave the world new science, literature, art, industry, and economic strength unparalleled in the long curve of history. As they now reach the twilight of their adventurous and productive lives, they remain, for the most part, exceptionally modest. They have so many stories to tell, stories that in many cases they have never told before, because in a deep sense they didn't think that what they were doing was that special, because everyone else was doing it too.

"This book, I hope, will in some small way pay tribute to those men and women who have given us the lives we have today--an American family portrait album of the greatest generation."

In this book you'll meet people like Charles Van Gorder, who set up during D-Day a MASH-like medical facility in the middle of the fighting, and then came home to create a clinic and hospital in his hometown. You'll hear George Bush talk about how, as a Navy Air Corps combat pilot, one of his assignments was to read the mail of the enlisted men under him, to be sure no sensitive military information would be compromised. And so, Bush says, "I learned about life." You'll meet Trudy Elion, winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine, one of the many women in this book who found fulfilling careers in the changed society as a result of the war. You'll meet Martha Putney, one of the first black women to serve in the newly formed WACs. And you'll meet the members of the Romeo Club (Retired Old Men Eating Out), friends for life.

Through these and other stories in The Greatest Generation, you'll relive with ordinary men and women, military heroes, famous people of great achievement, and community leaders how these extraordinary times forged the values and provided the training that made a people and a nation great.

From the Hardcover edition.

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"In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day, the massive and daring Allied invasion of Europe that marked the beginning of the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. There, I underwent a life-changing experience. As I walked the beaches with the American veterans who had returned for this anniversary, men in their sixties and seventies, and listened to their stories, I was deeply moved and profoundly grateful for all they had done. Ten years later, I returned to Normandy for the fiftieth anniversary of the invasion, and by then I had come to understand what this generation of Americans meant to history. It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced."

In this superb book, Tom Brokaw goes out into America, to tell through the stories of individual men and women the story of a generation, America's citizen heroes and heroines who came of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War and went on to build modern America. This generation was united not only by a common purpose, but also by common values--duty, honor, economy, courage, service, love of family and country, and, above all, responsibility for oneself. In this book, you will meet people whose everyday lives reveal how a generation persevered through war, and were trained by it, and then went on to create interesting and useful lives and the America we have today.

"At a time in their lives when their days and nights should have been filled with innocent adventure, love, and the lessons of the workaday world, they were fighting in the most primitive conditions possible across the bloodied landscape of France, Belgium, Italy, Austria, and the coral islands of the Pacific. They answered the call to save the world from the two most powerful and ruthless military machines ever assembled, instruments of conquest in the hands of fascist maniacs. They faced great odds and a late start, but they did not protest. They succeeded on every front. They won the war; they saved the world. They came home to joyous and short-lived celebrations and immediately began the task of rebuilding their lives and the world they wanted. They married in record numbers and gave birth to another distinctive generation, the Baby Boomers. A grateful nation made it possible for more of them to attend college than any society had ever educated, anywhere. They gave the world new science, literature, art, industry, and economic strength unparalleled in the long curve of history. As they now reach the twilight of their adventurous and productive lives, they remain, for the most part, exceptionally modest. They have so many stories to tell, stories that in many cases they have never told before, because in a deep sense they didn't think that what they were doing was that special, because everyone else was doing it too.

"This book, I hope, will in some small way pay tribute to those men and women who have given us the lives we have today--an American family portrait album of the greatest generation."

In this book you'll meet people like Charles Van Gorder, who set up during D-Day a MASH-like medical facility in the middle of the fighting, and then came home to create a clinic and hospital in his hometown. You'll hear George Bush talk about how, as a Navy Air Corps combat pilot, one of his assignments was to read the mail of the enlisted men under him, to be sure no sensitive military information would be compromised. And so, Bush says, "I learned about life." You'll meet Trudy Elion, winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine, one of the many women in this book who found fulfilling careers in the changed society as a result of the war. You'll meet Martha Putney, one of the first black women to serve in the newly formed WACs. And you'll meet the members of the Romeo Club (Retired Old Men Eating Out), friends for life.

Through these and other stories in The Greatest Generation, you'll relive with ordinary men and women, military heroes, famous people of great achievement, and community leaders how these extraordinary times forged the values and provided the training that made a people and a nation great.

From the Hardcover edition.

• 作者：wxjjj 发布时间：2023-10-30 23:09:57

  我们的童年离大自然很近，而这套《色拉和魔法店》带城市里的小朋友走进虫虫世界，看小虫朋友们，吃啥喝啥用啥玩啥，看他们如何走过春夏秋冬。

• 作者：长河落日 发布时间：2019-03-18 20:55:11

  自顶一下，此次再版经过重新修订，修改了一些错译尤其是密室讲义中的一处错译，语言风格也稍有微调。

• 作者：如雪思语 发布时间：2023-10-16 19:27:07

  【蛋蛋】很好看

• 作者：声控呀 发布时间：2023-10-28 20:22:05

  打开了新世界的大门！

• 作者：旧日回忆的卤味 发布时间：2013-05-26 18:24:00

  啊活到现在第一本漫画书当然要纪念一下！我真的买的是第1辑的第7！本诶。。赞~额后来被讨厌的小孩撕得粉身碎骨了t t

• 作者：168 Hours 发布时间：2021-08-10 21:40:10

  中国传统文史手法写就的天文学史，优缺点都十分鲜明。

• 杀死那只小猪——《敲碎那只小猪》意译版

  作者：候老六 发布时间：2012-11-14 19:47:50

  【这。本。书。是。从。英。文。版。来。的。这。一篇。是。我。自。己。一。个。一。个。字。地】译自希伯来语原文。多处细节做了本土化调整。名字什么的都是搞笑的。

  爸爸不同意给我买喜羊羊的玩具。其实妈妈答应我了可是爸爸不同意给我买。他说我被惯坏了。“为什么要买，嗯？”他对妈妈说，“为什么给他买？他就放个屁你还真当回事了。”爸爸说我不尊重钱，如果现在不趁我还小的时候教育我得等到什么时候呢？随随便便就能得到喜羊羊玩具的小孩长大以后会成为偷小卖部的坏蛋的，因为他们把天上掉馅饼当作理所应当。他给我买了一个难看的小瓷猪，背上还有一个洞。这样我就能好好长大，这样我就不会变成坏蛋了。

  每天早上我都必须喝一杯豆浆，尽管我讨厌死它了。豆浆带着豆渣等于一块钱，不带豆渣是五毛，如果喝完马上吐掉我就一分钱也拿不到。拿到硬币我就把它扔进小猪背里，然后摇一摇，它就叮叮的响。当小猪吃了足够多的硬币，摇起来不响的时候，我就能得到一只会说话的喜羊羊了。爸爸是这么说的，这就是对我的家教。

  这只小猪其实挺好看，它的鼻子摸起来凉凉的。它吃一块钱的时候是微笑的，就给它吃五毛钱他也是笑着的，但最棒的是就算什么都不喂它还是笑眯眯的。我还给他起了一个名字，李建国，名字和住在我家奶箱里的那个人一样——爸爸撕不下来他名字的贴纸。李建国它和我其他的玩具不一样，它温和得多，虽然它又不发光又不带弹簧又没有滴滴答答淌水的电池仓。只需要保护它不从电视柜上摔下来就好了。“建国，小心啊！你可是瓷做的呀！”每当我看见它向下探身子望着地砖的时候我都这么提醒它，然后它就冲我微笑，耐心地等我把它够下来。每次它冲我微笑我都高兴得要死，每天早上我喝带着豆渣的豆浆就是为了能拿硬币喂它，看到它从来都不变的微笑。“我爱你，建国，”之后我对它说，“说实话，我爱你比爱爸爸妈妈多一万万万倍。不管发生什么事我都会永永远远爱你的，就算有一天你会去抢劫小卖部。但是你千万别从电视柜上跳下来啊！”

  昨天爸爸把建国拿起来疯了一样地摇它。“爸爸小心，”我对他说，“你会让它肚子痛的。”但是爸爸还是继续摇。“不响了，你知道这意味着什么吗小珺珺？明天你就能得到一只会说话的喜羊羊了！”“耶，爸爸！”我说，“会说话的喜羊羊，太好了。就别再摇建国了，它很难受的。”爸爸把建国放了回去，转身去叫妈妈。一分钟之后他把妈妈拖了过来，手里还拿着把锤子。“瞧见了吧，”他对妈妈说，“这下他知道珍惜东西了，是吧小珺珺？”“我当然知道啦，”我说，“当然啦，但锤子是干嘛的呢？”“这是给你的，”爸爸说着把锤子递到我手里，“小心手啊。”“我当然会小心的，”我的确特别小心但是几分钟之后爸爸终于忍不住了，“来啊，把小猪砸了啊。”“砸啥？”我问，“建国？”“对对对就是建国，你已经为了喜羊羊够努力的了。”爸爸说。“来吧把它砸了，”

  建国带着瓷猪就要完蛋的觉悟惨淡地对我笑着。去死吧喜羊羊，我怎么能把我最好朋友的头cei了呢？“我不要喜羊羊了，”我把锤子还给爸爸，“我有建国就够了。”“你不懂，”爸爸说，“没事的，这是对你的教育。来，我替你砸。”爸爸已经举起了锤子，我对上了妈妈破碎的眼神，看见建国疲惫的笑容。一切都在我了，如果我不做点什么它就死了。“爸爸”，我抱住他的腿，“怎么啦小珺珺？”爸爸说，锤子高高悬在空中。“我能再要一块钱么，求你了。”我求他，“再让我喂它一块钱吧，明天，喝完豆浆以后再砸它，明天，我保证。”“还要一块？”爸爸笑了，把锤子放在电视柜上，“你瞧见了吧？他现在开始明白事儿了。”“是的我明白，”我说，“明天。”我嗓子眼里涌着眼泪。

  他们走了以后我紧紧抱住建国，眼泪哗哗地流了出来。建国什么都没说，只是在我手里静静地颤抖着，“别担心”，我悄悄对它说，“我会保护你的。”

  夜里，等到爸爸妈妈在客厅里看完电视去睡觉，我轻轻地起了床，带着建国从阳台上偷偷溜了出去。我们走了很久很久，最后走到一个工地的沙子堆旁。“猪最喜欢工地了”，我边把它放到沙子上边说，“尤其是有沙子的工地。你在这会很好的。”我等着它回答但建国什么都没有说。我摸摸它的鼻子再见，它只是悲伤地笑笑。

  它知道它再也见不到我了。

  它知道它再也见不到我了。

  ————这个故事我没找到其他的中译文。

• 回答一下短评中有些读者提到的问题

  作者：傲翔 发布时间：2015-07-02 13:09:52

  Q：五星给小说原著。这本翻译很糟糕，还出现杰拉德，真的不是把台版简体化时候漏掉的吗？Ciri的原名也出现2种汉字。不过波兰语毕竟小语种，只能忍着买到出全了...

  A：如果这位读者仔细看一下“杰拉德”出现的位置，你会发现这个名字都出自商人杜路哈德之口。该商人从一开始就没记住杰洛特的名字，后面两次也都说错了。这是原文里就有的梗，并非编校失误。类似的梗在第三卷里也会出现。

      CIRI在小说里的译名是希瑞，全名叫希瑞菈（希瑞是昵称）。这在欧美小说里是很常见的啊。而且我们还特意加了注释。

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  Q：没第一本看时那么惊艳。钢针我一点也不喜欢叶奈法，游戏里也是走了特丽丝线。结果书里特丽丝怎么早早挂了难道后文里有什么隐情？

  A：特莉丝没死，只是索登山战役太惨烈，许多尸体已经无法辨认，有人以为特莉丝死了。特莉丝在第三卷里也会讲述当时的情形。另外，由于游戏剧情发生在小说剧情之后，所以能在游戏里出现的人物，在小说里都没死（个别开挂原地满血复活的除外）

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  Q：给《宿命之剑》《别的东西》加一星。所以这是为了第三部开始的长篇作背景铺垫？！

  A：是的。“猎魔人”系列有7卷。卷1和卷2是短编集，内容相对独立但相互勾连。卷1的《价码问题》、卷2的《宿命之剑》和《别的东西》更是直接承接了后面的长篇。从卷3开始，后五本就都是内容连贯的长篇了。

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  Q：背景补充

  A：这个实在太冤枉了……别的游戏小说是先有游戏后有小说，你说它是“背景补充”并不为过。但猎魔人系列正好相反，它恰恰是先有小说后有游戏，游戏剧情严格承接小说剧情，而且几乎做到了无缝对接，许多小说中的细节和梗在游戏里都能见到，这点必须为游戏制作商点个赞。可能也正因如此，游戏的名头和影响力都比小说更大，这也是个不争的事实。

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  最后，豆瓣短评不能回复真TM是个反人类的设计啊（╯‵□′）╯︵┴─┴