But the book that stands above the rest is Fussell’s “The Great War and Modern Memory” (1975), a bristling history of trench warfare on the Western Front during World War I, as seen through ...

the savage peace that followed war, along with the failed attempts at a League of Nations, the rise of Hitler, and the rumblings of the next World War. A richly packed 144 pages of war reportage ...

Yardley published a tell-all book about his experiences leading a covert government agency called the Cipher Bureau Peter Zablocki Established on this day in 1941, the United Service Organizations ...