Claims on the Guelph Treasure stretch back nearly two decades, and Germany’s plans to change how restitutions are evaluated ...

Following the completion of Beyond the Grave for Rat at the Hole in the Wall tavern, you'll find the nimble-handed woman ...

Before he was a novelist Sebald was a straight scholar. What insight into his enigmatic literary oeuvre can we ascertain from these newly published essays?

The Treaty of Versailles, which was signed on 28 June 1919, was intended to bring peace following World War I — but instead ...

Army 1st Lt. Jack Treadwell single-handedly took out six German pillboxes and captured 18 enemy soldiers during World War II.

Genealogists volunteering for the Looted Books Project recently returned a volume to a 103-year-old Holocaust survivor in Florida who was given the book in 1930 as a gift for her good performance in ...

James Holland explains complex military movements into clear, engaging prose that makes "Cassino ‘44: The Brutal Battle for ...

Dorothy Thompson saw the rise of Nazi Germany as a foreign correspondent in Berlin. A new series from Radio Diaries tells the ...

Best-selling author Simon Scarrow, whose books have been published in more than 25 languages and sold six million copies, will be presenting his latest tome, A Death in Berlin, at Waterstones in ...

Anselm Kiefer’s “Breaking of the Vessels,” weighing more than seven tons, is one of the artist’s many manic dissections of ...

Author William Geroux finds a compelling true-crime angle in a series of camp murders, as well as international intrigue in a ...

The books on our list are some of the best for kids and teens about this period. For more reading about the past, check out our lists of World War II Books for Kids and Historical Fiction.