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.

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 ...