It was the Big One. The Great War ... "the best memoir of the First World War." "The Great War and Modern Memory" by Paul Fussell Winner of the National Book Award and hailed as one of ...

Father's Day will be here before you know it! Smithsonian Books has "dad books" galore for you to choose from to make his day ...

author Tom Laemlein provides an exciting window into the infancy of aerial combat in Aircraft Weapons Of World War One: A Photo Study Of Aerial Ordnance In The Great War. Spread out across 160 ...

Journalist Adam Hochschild, author of To End All Wars (2011), an account of World War I from the perspective of both hawks and doves in Great Britain, provides his picks of books to read to better ...

For those who seek to know more about the war’s devastation, a good place to start might be with these six books: “The Burning of the World” by ... language. In one chapter, relief troops ...

He served as a second lieutenant with the 103rd Infantry Division in France during World War II; at 20 he was ... I first read it when young, and it is one of two books — Jessica Mitford ...