Illustration by Shaylyn Esposito. The history books we loved most in 2019 span centuries, nations and wars. From womanhood to nationhood, they challenge the construction of identity and mythology.

World War II itself is represented every year by a variety of detailed military histories, and one of the best, and most disturbing, is Sinclair McKay’s “The Fire and the Darkness: The Bombing ...

Britain’s War: A New World, 1942-1947, by Daniel Todman, Allen Lane, RRP£35/Oxford University Press, RRP$39.95, 976 pages. Todman’s two-volume history of Britain during the second world war ...

Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45. By Barbara W. Tuchman (1971) 2. “There will never be a single work of history with me in it,” Joseph Stilwell wrote years before World ...

1. All wars end in a war of words, as those who have survived on both sides tell their story. World War I is no exception. Books are still being written about it, more than a century after its end ...

The 10 Best Books of 2024. ... However, one doesn’t have to read the six volumes and 3,261 pages of Winston Churchill’s history of World War I to find out what it was like to fight in it.

7 great political books, chosen by Book World staff. Whether you prefer fiction, history or philosophy, these books will help you understand America’s past and present.

For many, 2022 was a year of momentous change and loss, marked by events that will undoubtedly be discussed in history books for generations to come. Russia invaded Ukraine, launching a war that ...