In “Judgment at Tokyo,” the political scholar Gary J. Bass examines the post-World War II prosecution of Japanese military atrocities and makes the case for the real efficacy of international law.

The Nautilus is a legend from a bygone era—one with American industrial and defense capabilities the likes of which no modern ...

T HE SECOND WORLD WAR sparked decades of scholarship. By one count, 70,000 books had already been published by 1989. The 80th anniversary of the end of the war, both in Europe and Asia, is ...

Best books about the Second World War to read this year. From memoirs and biographies to historical deep dives into the war’s most brutal battles, these are some of the best books about WWII.

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Can "anything new be said about the Second World War", asked Adam Sisman in The Observer. "Unexpectedly the answer is yes." Among the "surprising facts" I learnt from this "revelatory book" are ...

A treasure trove of wartime codebreaker Alan Turing’s scientific papers has sold for more than three times their expected sale price... All after being saved from the shredder. View on euronews ...

World War I “colored everything that came before and shadowed everything that followed.” The assassinations, which Austria-Hungary blamed on Serbia, led to an ultimatum being delivered to the Serbian ...

An extraordinary and at times overwhelming amount of detail is packed into this enthralling history of espionage and intrigue surrounding the papacy since the start of World War II. Because of the ...

Historian Olivier Wieviorka has produced a masterful overview of the Second World War, analyzing all its dimensions – military, of course, but also political, racial and social. Friday, June 27 ...

3. Yours Cheerfully by AJ Pearce. This is a charming book that tells the story of a journalist on Fleet Street during the Second World War. Emmeline Lake is on the brink of a promotion at Women ...

The War is the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four American towns. The war touched the lives of every family on every street in ...