"WWII + VI" is a pleasing memoir that combines world events with personalized accounts of surviving the war. Johan Zwaan’s memoir "WWII + VI" focuses on his early childhood experiences of the war and its aftermath in the Netherlands.... Read More

Oh, the things we know by the way trees grow: about the planet’s climate over the past couple thousand years, about population fluctuation from ancient Rome forward, about solar radiation variations, atmospheric pressure systems,... Read More

The four years of Nazi occupation from 1940 to 1944 surely rank as one of the most painful periods in France’s long history. Beyond the dread of having the Germans roll over the five-million-strong French army in six weeks, taking more... Read More

French writer Jean Giono’s fascinating "Occupation Journal" was kept while he lived under Nazi rule. In 1943, Giono was a respected novelist with a family to care for. He wrote his novels from Provence, drawing upon the local culture,... Read More

A gripping and timely work of investigative journalism, Brian Deer’s "The Doctor Who Fooled the World" unveils the elaborate fraud perpetrated by Andrew Wakefield, the researcher who falsely linked the MMR vaccine to autism and... Read More

The re-creation of Paris from a medieval urban maze to the city of lights and boulevards comes to life in Mary McAuliffe’s historical exposé Paris, City of Dreams. When Louis-Napoleon, nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, took power in... Read More

In his historical study Hitler’s True Believers, Robert Gellately examines the motivations and rationalizations behind German popular support for the Third Reich. Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 is one of the most important and... Read More

"Plotting to Stop the British Slave Trade" is an ambitious academic volume that approaches the explorer James Bruce from a fresh angle. An enigmatic historical figure is placed in a new light in Jane Aptekar Reeve’s "Plotting to Stop... Read More