When Lytton Strachey set out to write “Eminent Victorians” in 1918, he sought to enliven the stuffy Victorian conventions of ...

The biographer and journalist chooses her favourite works about women in war. Her latest book is "The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz: A Story of Survival", which is published this week.

From the streets of Harlem to Vietnam to Hollywood, these stories correct the record and spotlight lesser-known heroes for ...

THE SECOND WORLD WAR sparked decades of scholarship. By one count, 70,000 books had already been published by 1989. The 80th anniversary of the end of the war, both in Europe and Asia, is ...