This month’s best new history
Don’t miss the best new history from the past month, hand-picked by our editors! We’ve rounded up this month’s biggest and buzziest history books — including a riveting account of Cold War espionage, an absorbing look at an unsolved disappearance on Mount Everest, and more! . A newly resurfaced account of the Hiroshima bombing from one of its survivors WHY IT’S READWORTHY: Lost for decades, this “stunning historical discovery and… heartrending testimony” (Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize–winning coauthor of American Prometheus ) was recently unearthed in a university archive A young Methodist minister chronicles the immediate aftermath of t...
