After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the ...

On social media, there are often posts that ask how you would act if you lived in Germany in the Weimar Republic era.

Michael Brettin and Peter Kroh, trans. from the German by Cindy Opitz. Berlinica (IPS, dist.), $25.95 (220p) ISBN 978-1-935902-02-7 Somber and sobering, the images in this black-and-white collection ...

Journalism is often referred to as the first draft of history, especially when covering war and international conflicts. “Newshawks in Berlin: The Associated Press and Nazi Germany” explores the ...

THE AMERICAN HERITAGE PICTURE HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II, edited by David G. McCullough; text by C. L. Sulzberger. 640 pages. Simon & Schuster. $20 (deluxe edition: $25). There are at least 14.9 million ...

Frank Malley’s historical fiction book, The Singing Spy, is based on the exploits of Margery Booth, a Wigan girl who left the coalfields and cotton mills of Lancashire in the 1930s to become a prima ...

This is the introduction to The War Room, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter bringing exclusive insights into defence and security. Sign up for The War Room. Richard Cockett, our news editor, ...

Reviewed By Pat Toensmeier Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth By Frederick Kempe Berkeley Books, 2011 579 pp.; $29.95 The Berlin Wall symbolized the Cold War.

Retired Special Forces soldier and former CIA agent James Stejskal was among the members of Detachment A. He served in it for nine years and wrote a book on the recently declassified unit, titled “ ...

With London’s night life blacked out by war, British publishers last week were all set for a big book boom. First boom signs: Penguin Books (6d.) were swamped with orders. Book clubs and rental ...