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 ...

A University of Cambridge historian has decoded more than 100 previously unopened letters sent during the Seven Years War.

Berlin, December 28th 1746. Frederick the Great has become a common name but this was only the beginning, as a great monarch cannot know peace for long. In 1756 Europe's first world war had begun ...