The New York Times Book Review and Military History

There isn't any.  Or very little.  I mean, the Fourth of July weekend (Issue dated Jul 3, 2016);  Nothing.  This also being the centenary of the Battle of the Somme (July 1, 1916), you would expect at least a brief note about current World War One publications.  Or even an essay about their absence.  There was an Op-Ed in the paper itself on July 1st about Tolkien on the Somme,  but without a certain amount of context and background history it really has no more relevance (or interest) than any other piece of literary theory.
World War One remains one of the defining events of the recent past. Hitler and the Nazis, still the touchstone for evil were a direct consequence of the flawed peace process in 1919.
Shouldn't an educated person pretend to have some knowledge of these events?
Among other things, it is the "worst case"  on why we should care about European Unity.