No. 1 publishing success of the year was a political book—Wendell ... I of a projected six-volume epic novel about American life from Colonial days to the Civil War. In Thunderhead ($2.75 ...

Novels like Slaughterhouse-Five and Life and Fate provide unique insights into how World War II affected soldiers and those in their periphery.

THEY WANTED WAR—Ctto D. To-lischus—Reynal & Hitchcock ($3). For seven years (since early 1933), readers who wanted to know what was really happening in the Third Reich, and why, turned to ...

Amelina’s book began as a diary. As she embarked on a mission to gather evidence of Russian war crimes, it evolved into a kind of detective story. It may also be considered a battle cry — one ...