Vietnam has been called the first “television” war. But it has also inspired generations of writers who have explored its ...

On October 30, 1938, Orson Welles gave the nation a Halloween scare with his radio broadcast of an adaptation of H.G. Wells' 1898 novel, The War of the Worlds.

the savage peace that followed war, along with the failed attempts at a League of Nations, the rise of Hitler, and the rumblings of the next World War. A richly packed 144 pages of war reportage ...

The Night Watch by Sarah Waters Sarah Waters’ brilliant book (which was shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prize), is told backwards through the bombings and black outs of World War II ...

Mombauer (Open University, U.K.), in this thoroughly revised edition of her The Origins of the First World War (2002). In her introduction, Mombauer writes “At the heart of this book are two questions ...

How Will the War End? The most important word in the title of this book is “surrender.” While it was clear that the final weeks of World War II had been reached, as Evan Thomas so cogently documents ...