World War II proved that control of the oceans could determine the outcome of a global conflict. While battleships had long ...

Capt. Robert A. Lewis, the co-pilot of the Enola Gay, scribbled thoughts in a notebook while the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan.

Lewis’s account, which he wrote during and after the bombing, has just been put up for sale by Dan Whitmore, a rare book dealer in Pasadena, California, who is handling it on consignment for the ...