Book Review: Last to Die
/Military historian Stephen Harding tells the poignant story of the last soldier killed in World War II
Read MoreBook Review: Yanks in the RAF
/While America was still technically neutral in Great Britain's fight against Germany, a handful of American flyers traveled to England and volunteered to fly in the RAF - a fascinating new book tells their story
Read MoreBook Review: France 1940
/The military collapse of France in 1940 has been a punch line and byword for decades, but a provocative new book argues that the traditional view is too simple
Read MoreOur Year in Reading 2014
/Our unabashedly bookish editors and friends look back on some of the highlights from 2014's reading.
Read MoreBook Review: Islam and Nazi Germany's War
/A revelatory new book explores the uneasy dealings the Third Reich had with the thousands of Muslims who suddenly found themselves under Nazi rule
Read MoreBook Review: WWII - A Chronicle of Soldiering
/Fifty years ago, the author of "From Here to Eternity" wrote a vivid, impressionistic account of the Second World War, and that fascinating book now enjoys a new edition
Read MoreBook Review: Japan 1941
/A vivid look at the culture and politics that led to Japan's ill-fated attack on Pearl Harbor
Read MoreBook Review: Engineers of Victory
/A new history of the Second World War focuses on the mid-level thinkers and technicians whose innovations made the grand strategies work
Read MoreBook Review: World War Two
/The military crucible of the 20th Century gets a new hardcover history that can be read in one hour and fifteen minutes.
Read MoreNow in Paperback: The Storm of War
/A new one-volume history of the Second World War ends with the big question: could the bad guys have won?
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Berlin at War
/An exceptionally powerful history of Berlin's rise and fall during the course of World War Two
Read MoreThat Indescribable Something
/She was married to two kings, reigned during the advent of trench warfare and the suppression of suffragettes, and stayed all her life a delightful dinner guest; A Year With the Windsors continues with the fascinating and fastidious Queen Mary.
Read MoreThe Greatness that was Downton
/Julian Fellowes' "Downton Abbey" was shot in a castle, but it may have a nearer relationship to "Mad Men" than "Brideshead Revisited." Joanna Scutts tracks the evolution of the British costume drama.
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