John Lawton’s Inspector Troy series is regularly singled out as a crime series of exceptional quality, spy thrillers that have earned comparisons to John le Carré, Philip Kerr, and Alan Furst and have
Scientists throughout history, from Galileo to today’s experts on climate change, have often had to contend with politics in their pursuit of knowledge. But in the Soviet Union, where the ruling elite
Henry VIII is best known in history for his tempestuous marriages and the fates of his six wives. However, as acclaimed historian Tracy Borman makes clear in her illuminating new chronicle of Henry’s
D-Day, June 6, 1944, and the 76 days of bitter fighting in Normandy that followed the Allied landing, have become the defining episode of World War II in the West—the object of books, films, televisio
In the spring of 1940, the Germans launched a military offensive in France and the Low Countries that married superb intelligence, the latest military thinking, and new technology to achieve in just s
Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, a small town twenty miles up the Ohio River from Pittsburgh, is famous for two things: the Jones & Laughlin Steel mill, an industrial behemoth that helped win World War II
Because of our shared English language, as well as the celebrated origin tales of the Mayflower and the rebellion of the British colonies, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all oth
