She became a Vogue cover girl in 1920s New York before embracing Paris, photography, and surrealism, and then dramatically changed her life yet again, reinventing herself as a war correspondent, notably covering the liberation of Dachau.These...

Steve Vogel traces the Pentagon’s architectural, institutional, and political history—how the building shaped and reflected U.S. defense policy, bureaucratic life, and modern war planning. A wide-ranging institutional history useful for...

The Phenomenon of Anne Frank  by David Barnouw, Jeannetter K. Ringold (Translator)Paperback141 pagesFebruary, 2018 “Everything you want to know about the Anne Frank phenomenon, about the perception and the effect of the text, whose writer...

The Rise of Germany, 1939-1941: The War in the West, Volume One James Holland Paperback 720 Pages 2016 The Second World War is one of the most significant conflicts in history, but for seven decades our understanding of the war has remained mostly...

The Spy Toolkit: Extraordinary inventions from World War II by The National Archives and Stephen TwiggeHardcover157 PagesMay 2018 A revealing, sometimes sinister and often hilarious look at the gadgets and devices devised to help spies in their...

In this concise yet powerful narrative, Michael Neiberg examines the collapse of France in 1940 and the emergence of the Vichy regime. Through focused storytelling and key turning points, Neiberg unpacks the political shockwaves across Europe—and...