Book Review: The Second World Wars
/Veteran military historian Victor Davis Hanson writes a broad-scale history of the Second World War.
Read MoreBook Review: Stalin - Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941
/Stephen Kotkin's groundbreaking multi-volume biography of Stalin continues with the uneasy alliance between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
Read MoreBook Review: Hell from the Heavens
/In April of 1945, the destroyer USS Laffey was bombarded by wave after wave of kamikaze fighters - and yet survived. A gripping new book tells the story of a ship that refused to die
Read MoreBook Review: Hitler's Shadow Empire
/In 1936 Nazi Germany poured money and manpower into backing General Franco in the Spanish Civil War; a new history powerfully re-interprets that fraught relationship
Read MoreBook Review: Japan 1941
/A vivid look at the culture and politics that led to Japan's ill-fated attack on Pearl Harbor
Read MoreBook Review: 1940
/A spirited new account of the divisive American presidential election race that was held amidst the growing clamor of European war
Read MoreFrom the Archives: Embossed Coins
/Elie Wiesel once claimed “a novel about Treblinka is either not a novel or not about Treblinka.” How does Steve Sem-Sandberg grapple with representing the unrepresentable in his sweeping chronicle of the Łódź ghetto, The Emperor of Lies? A review from our archives.
Read MoreBook Review: Perilous Moon
/In the night sky over Occupied France, two young men met in combat - this remarkable book tells their stories.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Bloodlands
/A stark and powerful account of the killing regimes of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia - and of the blood-soaked stretch of middle Europe where those regimes did their work.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: The Storm of War
/A new one-volume history of the Second World War ends with the big question: could the bad guys have won?
Read MoreBook Review: Kiev 1941
/In Hitler's great gamble of attacking the Soviet Union in 1941, the legendary victories at Kiev weren't so glorious as standard histories would have us believe - so says a new book on the subject
Read MoreThe Prince of Now and Then
/He lost his famous mother when he was a boy, became a teen idol, had a storybook wedding, and he's second in line to be King of England. The monarchy Prince William inherits will be like nothing his predecessors have experienced - if it exists at all. "A Year with the Windsors" concludes.
Read MoreSophistication and Recklessness: Patrick Leigh Fermor
/With Patrick Leigh Fermor's death, the world lost a gracious host, a tireless traveller, and one of the best prose stylists of the 20th century. We pause to appreciate him.
Read MoreOn the Barricades with the Bourgeoisie
/Visionary novelist J.G. Ballard's penultimate book "Millennium People," about an outbreak of middle-class revolution and terrorism, has finally been published in the U.S.
Read MoreThe Neocon Mask Removed
/The ideology Irving Kristol helped found is inexorably tied to Bush administration, but a posthumous collection of essays reveals different and bracingly diverse origins
Read MoreDebo Speaks!
/For most of the 20th century, the vivacious, controversial Mitford sisters captivated the imagination of the Western world. In a long-awaited memoir, Deborah Mitford, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, the last living Mitford sister, tells her story at last.
Read MoreThe Lion Saves His Pride
/Winston Churchill has become such an icon of wartime tenacity that many people tend to forget he had a postwar political career. Barbara Leaming's 2010 biography examines the last act of a famous man's career.
Read MoreRaggedy-Ass Marines
/The Pacific Theater WWII battle against Japan - it will forever be 'the other war' - here takes center stage as the boredom and carnage are seen by five individual soldiers.
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