THE ILIAD OF HOMER, A LINE FOR LINE TRANSLATION IN DACTYLIC HEXAMETERS—William Benjamin Smith and Walter Miller—Macmillan ($3.75). Seven or eight centuries before Christ, song and story being at that ...
At Christmas, 1939, a few months into the new World War, London bookshops were very busy. The war was bringing in a public eager to learn about weapons, planes, and the nature of the country that was ...
Alexandra Churchill and Nicolai Eberholst's "Ring of Fire: A New History of the World at War: 1914" sets itself a deceptively narrow task: to tell the story of the First World War’s outbreak through ...
A Pulitzer Prize winning classic work first published in 1991, this thick but not ponderous book traces the roots of the Great War by recounting much of nineteenth century European history, from ...
NPR's Scott Simon talks with author Adam Ehrlich Sachs about his new novel "Gretel and the Great War." The book follows a young girl in Vienna at the end of World War I. A young girl wanders the ...
A British soldier began writing "The Fall of Gondolin" while in a hospital bed, stricken by "trench disease" from the lethal front lines of World War I. A German soldier, the painter Otto Dix, later ...
If you want to follow, minute by minute, five of the major engagements of World War II in the Pacific as recorded by the British, then this is the book for you. The account of each engagement is drawn ...
PEOPLE are talking war and thinking peace today and the paradox is equally to be observed in print and in conversation. Travelers returning from the Continent will shake their heads and wonder aloud ...
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