The story of World War II is still being written. Each new wave of scholarship brings deeper insight and sharper ...
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 ...
An auditorium of eager kids in Washington, Okla., were on the edge of their seats a few weeks ago as author Jennifer A. Nielsen told them about Lidia Durr Zakrzewski, a teenager who joined the Polish ...
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 ...
Selected by Jonathan Horn, the author, most recently, of ‘The Fate of the Generals: MacArthur, Wainwright, and the Epic Battle for the Philippines.’ Share ...
In my eighth-grade literature class, we read "The Diary of a Young Girl: Anne Frank" and "The Hiding Place," personal ...