It’s been 75 years since the end of World War II, and this week we offer a stack of books on the subject — from detailed accounts of the war’s origins (by Roger Moorhouse and Benjamin Carter Hett) to a biography tracing Hitler’s downfall (by the German historian Volker Ullrich) to considerations of the atom bomb and the victory in Japan (by Lesley M. M. Blume and Ian W. Toll). There’s a novel about a German soldier, and a history of the attack that played a little-known role in the development of chemotherapy.
New York Times: 10 new books we recommend this week
A passenger wearing a face mask reads a book onboard a commercial flight heading to Pasto, at the Alfonso Bonilla Aragon International Airport on Sept. 2, 2020, in Palmira, Valle del Cauca Department, Colombia.
