Recently published books can help readers better understand Russia and the war in Ukraine. Here is a list of must-read books.

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

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

Radical changes to the school curriculum are routine in Bangladesh, where febrile political divisions dating back to its ...

Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and ...

A review of content taught at the Department of Defense Education Activity schools has resulted in restrictions of lessons on ...

“Guam: The Battle for an American Island in World War II,” is No. 8 on James Hallas’ well-regarded list of titles covering ...

In Baker’s newly translated 1949 memoir, “Fearless and Free,” the boundary-breaking performer does not hold back on her ...

The October 7 atrocity, mass Palestinian deaths . . . three new books tackle questions of blame, victimhood and the region’s future security ...

A new marker in Exeter honors Black Revolutionary War soldiers and their families who lived there after the war.

The Thirty Years War (1618-1648) began mainly as a religious civil war in the German-speaking lands, but it ended up as the ...