D-Day was the turning point of World War II, but victory in Normandy began long before June 6, 1944. Behind the scenes, ...

Dr. Jean Munro worked at Bletchley Park during World War Two helping to decipher German Army and Air Force Enigma messages.

He had read a book about the Nazi occupation of Denmark and wanted to show the ''deepest respect and appreciation''.

Was the victim a misunderstood savant? Or connected to organized crime? There’s only one clue, and it can’t be solved.

If not for the work of two scholars, Alice Kober and Michael Ventris, the ancient Greek script Linear B would likely still be a mystery.

On Feb. 21, Sten Gould turns 100 years old. His wartime journals have preserved the voice of a soldier who copied Nazi morse code transmissions, walked through Hitler's bombed-out home and came home ...

The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, March 8, 2026, including hardcover and paperback ...

The details of Elizebeth Smith Friedman’s remarkable career sound a bit outlandish when you list them all together: cracked ...

Literary and cultural denizens of the nation’s capital gathered on Saturday to eulogize The Post’s scuppered Book World supplement.

Books rise to the level of enduring art, I believe, when their writers take something ordinary and reintroduce it in a way ...

For over six centuries, the Voynich Manuscript has resisted every attempt at translation. Cryptographers, linguists, codebreakers — even modern AI — have all failed. Some say it’s Hebrew. Others say ...

In the face of an incredibly snowy winter, we asked five writers, editors, and booksellers across the state about the books that they can’t stop talking about. Telling stories of wild leverets, serial ...