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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

PARIS, France — D-Day veteran ″Papa Jake″ Larson, who survived German gunfire on Normandy's bluffs in 1944 and then garnered ...