As Civil War general William Tecumseh Sherman once said, "War is hell." The best books about war can be at times gripping and ...

Below is a list of some of the best fiction and nonfiction books on the Vietnam War that offer perspectives from the North, the South, and the superpowers that backed them. These fascinating reads ...

World War I is no exception. Books are still being written about it, more than a century after its end. However, one doesn’t have to read the six volumes and 3,261 pages of Winston Churchill’s ...

(Mariner Books Classics) ‘The Things They Carried,’ Tim O’Brien (1990) The Vietnam War was the last extended conflict waged ... You America’s finest. America’s best.’ Back in the states, the same ...

did—these are five of the best books published about the second world war this century. Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-45. By Max Hastings. Knopf; 672 pages; $22. Pan Macmillan ...

And since it is now the last day (observed) of our stranger-than-fiction summer, I want to linger for just a moment on the books you turn ... of the Vietnam War. That included Jeneva Stone of ...

This historical novel tells the story of enslaved women living on a plantation in the Civil War era-South ... Anne Rice, perhaps best known for her classic Vampire Chronicles series, also wrote ...

Check out: USA TODAY's weekly Best-selling Booklist Here are five books we recommend checking out ... in the Army Nurse Corps during the Vietnam War. It follows 20-year-old sheltered nursing ...

The war’s ugly end is foretold expertly and ... 1990 publication and is widely regarded as one of the all-time best fiction books about the Vietnam War. Like Ninh, O’Brien has little time ...