These three history books are worth reading this summer, from a Northern Kentucky WWII soldier's letters to a book on William Howard Taft.

In exceptional circumstances, The War Room allows itself a film rather than a text, and there is no doubt that “Downfall”, about the last days of Adolf Hitler, is truly exceptional.

Leningrad: The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944 by Anna Reid The 872-day siege of Leningrad was one of the longest and deadliest in history. Nazi Germany intended to starve the city into ...

The types of books she often writes—historical novels about bombings, spies and young resistance fighters in World War II—have become some of the hottest novels with young readers starting ...

In “World War Zoos: Humans and Other Animals in the Deadliest Conflict of the Modern Age,” Mr. Kinder, a professor of history at Oklahoma State University, chronicles the devastating effect ...