HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - In the opening pages of the new book “Shell Song,” Shigeki Fujimoto was enjoying a peaceful morning with his family. But on Dec. 7, 1941, the peace was shattered when Japan ...

A memoir by the late Uri Shulevitz that reads like an adventure novel and a novel by Daniel Nayeri that feels utterly real. Cover illustration for “The Sky Was My Blanket.”Credit...Uri Shulevitz ...

Royce and Becky Singleton had only been married seven months in October, 1943, but Royce, a Navy fighter pilot, was aboard the USS Suwannee escort carrier headed to the Central Pacific. Royce's ship ...

As an Amazon associate, Military.com earns from qualifying purchases. "You're not getting any war stories from me," Pincus Mansfield would say when prompted to talk about his time in World War II.

The kind of history that proposed big round answers to large historical questions or propounded Toynbee-like views of man’s drift simply did not show in ’55. Fascinating bits of Americana were almost ...

Garrett Graff's new book, The Devil Reached Toward the Sky, is an oral history of the first atomic bomb. Below, the best-selling author of The Threat Matrix, The Only Plane in the Sky, and Watergate: ...