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To Be a ‘Palatable Jew’ — in Germany in 1940, in the U.S. Today

6 Paperbacks to Read This Week

In the Middle of a War With No End in Sight

How the World Once Handled War Crimes

Millie Bobby Brown Writes About a Real-Life Wartime Mystery

Two Men of the Jungle Meet in Herzog’s First Novel

A Poem (and a Painting) About the Suffering That Hides in Plain Sight

How Germans Reconciled Themselves to Defeat After World War II

Has the Myth of the ‘Good War’ Done Us Lasting Harm?

‘Looking for the Good War’ Says Our Nostalgia for World War II Has Done Real Harm

The Case Against Winston Churchill

How 2 Jewish Sisters Built a Cultural Oasis During World War II

Life at Seven Miles Below the Sea

Covert Actions: How Espionage Has Helped Win Wars

Joy, Flexibility and Bravery Land on the Best-Seller List

A World War II Spy Didn’t Live to Tell Her Tale. Her Great-Great-Niece Will.

How Do You Illustrate Anguish? With Rage or Silence?

The French Count Who Turned His Home Into a Museum to Honor His Dead Son

Malcolm Gladwell on the Hard Decisions of War

Adam Zagajewski, Poet of the Past’s Presence, Dies at 75