The drama and conflict of the World War II era have inspired so many great novels — from Atonement and The English Patient to ...

Book and Dagger,’ by Elyse Graham, is a briskly paced account of the scholars who became intelligence pioneers in the Office ...

Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles — fiction and nonfiction — to consider for your October reading list.

Ben Macintyre’s latest book is “The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special Forces Operation That Shocked the ...

History may be written by the victors, but historical fiction? That’s crafted by authors who know how to spice up the past ...

As if your TBR pile isn’t tall enough already, It’s time to take a look at more new book releases coming out in October. If ...

The year was 1985 and unbeknownst to the young Ms. Anton, authorities had just discovered that beloved “Aunt Liselotte” (real ...

Historian John McManus rates the accuracy of World War II battles in "Masters of the Air," "Pearl Harbor," and "Flags of Our ...

A graphic novel makes a powerful case that if these two men had never met, 20th-century pop culture might have taken an ...

Her latest book is BOOK AND DAGGER: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II 2024 has seen many devastating budget cuts to libraries. Earlier this year, New York City ...

A whole world can exist within a single brain. But the boundaries between one mind and the next are usually unbreachable—except in fiction ... and estrangement. The books on the list below ...