Mountain Middle School eighth grader Emmett Kane developed a fascination with World War II at an early age. After reading more than 50 books about the topic, he decided to write one of his own. Emmett ...

Garrett Graff's new book, The Devil Reached Toward the Sky, is an oral history of the first atomic bomb. Below, the best-selling author of The Threat Matrix, The Only Plane in the Sky, and Watergate: ...

A memoir by the late Uri Shulevitz that reads like an adventure novel and a novel by Daniel Nayeri that feels utterly real. Cover illustration for “The Sky Was My Blanket.”Credit...Uri Shulevitz ...

Three new books on the Holocaust, a novel set in World War II–era Vietnam, and works on Winston Churchill and Volodymyr Zelensky make for compelling offerings for the history buff. Historian Stone ...

Eighty years after the end of World War II, scholars and writers are still finding ways to shed new light on the conflict. Four recent books uncover fresh insights. Telling the story of the battle for ...