“The Wives” hit close to home. The memoir by Simone Gorrindo reminded me of stories I’d heard my stepdaughter talk about being married to an Army officer, which means you are hitched to the military ...

TREBLINKA by Jean-François Steiner. 415 pages. Simon & Schuster. $5.95. There is a horrifying sameness to books about Nazi concentration camps. To have read once about Auschwitz or Belsen or Dachau ...