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Three new books on the Holocaust, a novel set in World War II–era Vietnam, and works on Winston Churchill and Volodymyr Zelensky make for compelling offerings for the history buff. Historian Stone ...

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This is an incredibly detailed and propulsive narrative that captures one of the great naval battles of the war, the Oct. 25, 1944, Battle of Samar, in which a small, dramatically outgunned U.S. task ...

V IS FOR VICTORY: Franklin Roosevelt’s American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II. By Craig Nelson. Scribner. 448 pages. $32. There are plenty of battles that were crucial to the Allies’ ...

In her lively “Book and Dagger,” the historian Elyse Graham rescues a cast of scholar-spies from obscurity. By Ben Macintyre Ben Macintyre’s latest book is “The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the ...

World War II remains one of the most comprehensively studied events in modern history. It redefined borders, ideologies, and the nature of war itself. Yet amid the millions of words written on the ...

As an Amazon associate, Military.com earns from qualifying purchases. "You're not getting any war stories from me," Pincus Mansfield would say when prompted to talk about his time in World War II.