As Tim Bouverie shows in his masterful new diplomatic history of the war, the prime minister was right, both in his ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

In her fourth book, “Book and Dagger,” author Elyse Graham describes history’s widespread coverage of D-Day, writing: “Here’s the war that everyone saw — the war you’ve heard about.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

The four composers experienced the Second World War in radically different ways. Strauss remained in Germany and Austria, his reputation forever sullied by his ambivalent relationship with the ...