The 20th century looms large in this selection of five new historical novels. Momentous events — the sinking of the Titanic, ...

In his biting, timely new historical novel, "The Director," Daniel Kehlmann investigates complicity through the true story of ...

Tim Bouverie's 'old-fashioned diplomatic history' explores the often fraught relationship between world powers ...

Ruth Hartman, who is 82 years old and diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, came to the Camarillo Airport in a wheelchair. She ...

Plus “The Deserters” by Mathias Énard and “Glass Century” by Ross Barkan.

Celebrate 80 years since the end of WWII in Europe and honour those who gave their lives in battle with special events all ...

Vietnam has been called the first “television” war. But it has also inspired generations of writers who have explored its ...

Last man out. In 1946, shortly after leaping from a plummeting B-24 bomber and hiding in caves from Nazi patrols for six ...

Hitler's betrayal of his ally cost the lives of 29 million Russians... but the Eastern Front broke Germany's armies and ...

The Six Triple Eight sorted millions of pieces of wartime mail in a matter of months but weren't recognized publicly for ...

The Six Triple Eight sorted millions of pieces of wartime mail in a matter of months but weren't recognized publicly for ...

Lutcher Stark Center for Physical Culture and Sports at The University of Texas at Austin. Her talk, titled Aesthetes, Athletes, and Soldiers: The Sports Press and the First World War, will take place ...