Carol Caverly’s All the Old Lions introduces Thea Barlow, a young, go-getting editor whose current project involves an old-time Wyoming whorehouse called Halfway Halt. Minnie Darrow, sister of the past owner, is writing a book about the …

During my lifetime World War II has been the focal point in understanding and comparing the events of our time, and I’ve had only a sketchy familiarity with the First World War. Russell Freedman has written brilliantly of the conflict t…