World War II movies can recreate the sight and sound of battle, but books let you sit inside a character's head and feel the slow, terrifying crawl of history. With this in mind, the following ten ...

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

After his liberation from a prison camp in Manchuria at the end of World War II, Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV returned to the U.S. and commenced work on a series of newspaper articles that would ...

In a strong new volume, A MACHINE GUNNER’S WAR: From Normandy to Victory With the 1st Infantry Division in World War II (Casemate, $34.95), one of them, Ernest Andrews Jr., tells the tale of his ...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Calamity of Souls comes David Baldacci's newest novel, set in London in 1944, about a bereaved bookshop owner and two teenagers scarred by the ...

The world's 10 best war books of all time ranked – full list as Hinterland only number 7 These are the best war books in the game but with Hinterland only at number seven, what will make the top ...

Max Brooks wrote the book 'World War Z,' which was later turned into a successful movie starring Brad Pitt. (Courtesy photo) While Brooks credits wife Michelle with helping him get “World War Z ...

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 ...

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 ...

During World War II, an exasperated Winston Churchill observed that “there is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them.” Tim Bouverie explores this ...

You would think there is not much more to say about the second World War. This book proves there are still untold stories, the most notable of which is the Japanese counterpart to the Nuremberg ...