Elliot Ackerman’s 6 favorite books on war and duty
Marine veteran and former CIA officer Elliot Ackerman is the best-selling author of several novels and memoirs. His most ...
The Economist6d
What to read about the end of the second world war
Pan Macmillan; £18.99 The last eight months of the war in Europe were among the bloodiest and most destructive. Adolf Hitler ...
The Atlantic6y
The Atlantic Books
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 New York Times28d
This Book on World War I Changed How I Think of Nonfiction
But the book that stands above the rest is Fussell’s “The Great War and Modern Memory” (1975), a bristling history of trench warfare on the Western Front during World War I, as seen through ...
BBC4y
Bringing War of the Worlds to a 21st-Century audience
“You can almost see Wells getting to the end of the book [and clearly thinking]: ‘what do I do now? “And then, he comes up with this brilliant idea.” The War of the Worlds is on Sunday ...
Observer Today4d
Finding love at war: Book tells woman’s story as war bride in World War II
John D’Agostino of the Dunkirk OBSERVER gave me the green light to go out and get stories of local veterans for the In Honor ...