The newest book, called "Against the Tide Imperial," continues to explore an alternate history of World War II and what outcome would have resulted if Adolf Hitler had died in November 1940 ...

The title character of the Book of Job is a confounding figure for Christians, Muslims, Jews, and those of any faith who have tried to incorporate the story over millennia.

Two new books about war imagine alternatives to righteous combat. In ‘War by Other Means’ and ‘Mercy: Humanity in War,’ violence is not the only option. December 9, 2022. 10 min.

Unlike most science fiction, however, alternate history books don't look to the future. They look to the past. ... Yes, fine, this is another "What if the Germans had won the war?" premise.

War by Other Means: The Pacifists of the Greatest Generation Who Revolutionized Resistance, by Daniel Akst, Melville House, 368 pages, $23.19 In 1940, during the twilight between peace and war, a ...

The regime in George Orwell’s “1984” declared “War is Peace — Freedom is Slavery — Ignorance is Strength.” The dystopian fiction drew flocks of book buyers after Trump advisor ...

PAST SOLUTIONS: Writer David Sullivan says the peace plans offered in his debut novel were available solutions in 1860 and could have prevented the Civil War. “But the people involved then were ...

An alternative, “proactive” view, popular among historians and political scientists, and among some anthropologists and archaeologists, holds that mankind is less acted upon than acting.