This year saw plenty of excellent books, as usual, on the 20th century – but the real gems were revelatory examinations of ...

Still, she was the first American design star. She was in all these ads for cigarettes and alcohol and chewing gum, all kinds ...

War is an intimate and sweeping account of one of the most ... Profoundly moving and deeply revealing, From Here to the Great ...

Caroline Alexander’s World War II aviation history deals with Allied efforts to get supplies to China, a mission hampered ...

Plenty of excellent books are coming out in early 2025. Suzanne Collins has written a new Hunger Games book, and Rebecca ...

and went on to become a Great War ace, Wilson said. On Oct. 31, 1916, Carter shot down his first two planes, east of Ypres.

Their deaths showed humanity’s inability to avoid a calamity that was so very preventable – a lesson that we need to ...

Men, even great men, are not built from marble but from flesh and blood.

In Homer's account in The Odyssey, Penelope, wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy, is portrayed as the ...

The Nobel Prize-winning novelist celebrates Zbigniew Herbert, whose defiant work proved that even the darkest times call for ...

As Guy Ritchie's thrilling adaptation of his special forces story starring Henry Cavil continues to delight Amazon Prime ...

of all the recent books offering female-focused retellings of old legends and sagas, they’re among the very best. The Voyage Home is the third instalment in the series and picks up after the Trojan ...