Spielberg's contemporary spin on H. G. Wells would be up there with his best if only he could have nailed the ending.

What to read this July, from a dark satire on war journalism to a memoir told in verse - BOOKS OF THE MONTH: Martin Chilton ...

Max Brooks’ seminal zombie thriller, “World War Z”, is set in an alternate 21st century world after a zombie apocalypse -- a ...

Readers have voted this 1929 war novel as the best of its genre. All Quiet On The Western Front, written by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of the First World War, has been selected by ...

Twenty years ago this week, Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds opened in British cinemas, offering us a big-budget replay ...

But print book sales of kids’ titles focused on the Holocaust, part of the World War II canon, rose 13% since 2023, to 350,000 copies last year, according to book tracker Circana BookScan.

Gary J. Bass’s new book delves into the Tokyo war crimes trial, which was far more complex and contentious than the Nuremberg proceedings.

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War Of The Worlds will be released as both a Deluxe and Ultimate Collector's Edition in October ...

Can "anything new be said about the Second World War", asked Adam Sisman in The Observer. "Unexpectedly the answer is yes." Among the "surprising facts" I learnt from this "revelatory book" are ...

In “Judgment at Tokyo,” the political scholar Gary J. Bass examines the post-World War II prosecution of Japanese military atrocities and makes the case for the real efficacy of international law.

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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 ...