Among the millions of World War II veterans were seven future U.S. presidents. Some only narrowly survived the experience.

Paul Fussell’s 50-year-old survey of trench warfare deserves a new generation of readers, our book critic writes.

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Wayne Vansant’s artwork can be quite graphic. For more than 30 years, the Douglasville native has written and illustrated ...

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It has been tempting to view the C.I.A. as omniscient. Yet Coll’s chastening new book about the events leading up to the Iraq War, in 2003, shows just how often the agency was flying blind.

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Sutton's 2022 book, "Nazis on the Potomac: The Top-Secret Intelligence Operation that Helped Win World War II." Army personnel officially were trained in the art of interrogation at the Camp ...

The Latest Historic images from 80 years ago show the unprecedented scale of the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France, changing the course of World War II. World War II was America’s ...