War & Military History

Founding Courage succeeds admirably in its stated purpose: to document courage as it has manifested across American history and demonstrate that this quality remains deeply embedded in the American character. Robinson's seven biographical chapters…

Return to the War on the Plaine des Jarres ultimately transcends the boundaries of a conventional war memoir. While it provides valuable historical documentation of a little-understood conflict, its greatest achievement lies in chronicling…

The 1943 dispatches from England, North Africa and Italy, gathered in 1958 behind an introduction in which Steinbeck itemises the rules he wrote under and the stories he agreed not to file. The prose…

Children of Radium ultimately becomes a meditation on the impossibility of fully knowing the past while acknowledging our inescapable connection to it. Like the radioactive elements in his great-grandfather's toothpaste, this history continues to…