American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History Chris Kyle From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills...

Author: Herman Wouk Interweaves the lives and fates of fictional characters and real-life notables to tell the story of Israeli history to the climactic events of the Yom Kippur War...

Barbara W TuchmanBarbara W. Tuchman won the Pulitzer Prize for Stilwell & the American Experience in China, 1911-45 in '72. She uses the life of Joseph Stilwell, the military attache...

Svetlana Alexievich New English translation of original 1985 book by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.The long-awaited translation of the classic oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second World...

Mary Chamberlain Her heart died in the war – can she breathe new life to it?   Dora Simon and Joe O’Cleary live in separate countries, accepting of their twilight...

Hans FalladaIt is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a storm is brewing. The shabby reporter Tredup leads a precarious existence working for the Pomeranian Chronicle - until...

Hannah ArendtSparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in...

Ian Morris A powerful and provocative exploration of how war has changed our society―for the better"War! . . . . / What is it good for? / Absolutely nothing," says...

Ruta Sepetys It's 1941 and fifteen-year-old artist Lina Vilkas is on Stalin's extermination list. Deported to a prison camp in Siberia, Lina fights for her life, fearless, risking everything to...

Ida Fink Ida Fink's first collection of short stories, A Scrap of Time, was universally hailed as a masterpiece. Traces continues Fink's portrait of life in Nazi-occupied Poland, of men and women otherwise buried...

Robert M Gates 'As I look back, there is a parallel theme to my years at war: love. By that I mean the love - there is no other word...

William CahnMurder Among Friends is the story of three men who initially met in college following World War II. Once their careers take off their friendship is jeopardized when one...