We’ve curated a selection of some of the best books about the Second World War to read this year. From memoirs and biographies to historical deep dives into the war’s most brutal battles ...

Beevor’s second choice is the two-volume biography of Adolf Hitler by British historian Ian Kershaw - a work he describes as ...

The Reckoning" offers a vital, nuanced perspective on World War II's final year, particularly focusing on India, Burma, and ...

Richard Cockett, our news editor, recommends six books about history’s bloodiest ... our coverage of the closing months of the second world war. As ever, subscribers generously gave their ...

Catalan psychiatrist Francesc Tosquelles’s treatment of mental illness at the institution included art—and was championed by ...

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 ...

The first part of the book is devoted to describing how their backgrounds and experience of war as young men shaped their strategic views. A theme of O’Brien’s is that we can’t understand ...

Can "anything new be said about the Second World War", asked Adam Sisman in The Observer. "Unexpectedly the answer is yes." Among the "surprising facts" I learnt from this "revelatory book" are ...

A treasure trove of wartime codebreaker Alan Turing’s scientific papers has sold for more than three times their expected ...

An extraordinary and at times overwhelming amount of detail is packed into this enthralling history of espionage and intrigue surrounding the papacy since the start of World War II ... global ...