Robert S. Davis

“Meltzer and Mensch, in The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill, give history a sheen of drama that it deserves while leaving the reader much

“Childs writes an engrossing, spellbinding narrative while laying out a clear and comprehendible history.”

“The Tudors in Love enlightens the reader on courtly love as ‘that elusive but overwhelmingly pervasive ideal that dominated the European mind for centuries.’”

“This work is an education and a powerful discussion that spurs needed honest conversation.”

“H. W. Brand in The Last Campaign tells an interesting tale, an informative page turner for the general reader.”

“Tesla: Wizard at War tells of the process in which ideas—even if dismissed or of questionable credibility—develop.”

“Neanderthals belong to a distant past of hundreds of thousands of years but studying them is a rapidly developing race to the future of scientific exploration.

“Alford tells the remarkable story of spiritualism as it affected the lives of the members of the respective families of Abraham Lincoln and his assassin John Wilkes Booth.”

“The author makes this solid work of scholarship the sort of book that starts a young person’s love of reading and interest in history.”

“Benson tells this little known chapter of American Jewish history well and with passion”

“Ways and Means represents nonfiction writing at its best, using an easy prose to enlighten with thought provoking, sometimes controversial, ideas from the very beginning.”

“The Great War and the Birth of Modern Medicine could stand as a solid highly readable history of World War I, even ignoring its important contribution to the history of the advanc

“Despite the many, many books on Abraham Lincoln, books such as this one bring us the closest to the real man.”

“Renehan explains how one of America’s first true detective stories drew ‘national journalistic attention’ but also went remembered by famed writer Nathaniel Hawthorne.”

“James Oakes in The Crooked Path to Abolition tells how far Lincoln could go on emancipation within the Constitution—but how far was he willing to go?”

“A reader, even one familiar with the history of the American Revolution, will find much to enjoy in this book with interesting details to learn.”

“Gayle Jessup White writes a candid and personal memoir that includes finding the legacy of President Thomas Jefferson and the author’s racial self-identity in the process.”

“The author explains the important feminine side of a royal court with the histories of two of the mistresses of Great Britain’s famous monarchs, George I and II.”

“a story of the famous Daniel Boone that stands on just its facts, and yet the storytelling has the same quality that has made Pearl’s historical fiction so popular.”

“Giulio Boccaletti in Water: A Biography tells a history of human manipulation of the environment.

“Garrett Ryan entertains as well as educates on the ancient history of the Greeks and Romans.”

“In Battle of Britain, Dilip Sarkar tells the story of this historic moment through the experiences of participants who did not survive the battle.

“Simon tells an engaging, forgotten, and interesting history about a small part of the United States in World War II.”

“Russo provides a well-illustrated essay on each of these individuals, reminding the reader that the presidents and the White House have families, and their history becomes part of America’

“Chomsky wrote Central America’s Forgotten History because ‘most US Americans, even those who decry the abusive treatment of immigrants, remain blissfully oblivious to the historie

“Historian Robert Lane Fox adds fact and understanding to the general public’s knowledge and misunderstanding of medicine in classical Greece.

“Ghost Flames, within the framework of invasion, defeat, victory, and stalemate, tells the complexities of the post-World War II ‘ideological civil war’ of Korea.”

“American Baby provides a meaningful discussion on where we have been on and how we need to change the adoption system.”

"Children of Ash and Elm is a thorough, readable, one-volume history of the Viking culture built on the documentary and on archaeology."

"The Life and Death of Ancient Cities joins a shelf full of enlightening new fun reads on understanding our beginnings in the ancient world."

"Davis and Douglas arose from very different Americas to create one tragic national history."

"An Incipient Mutiny fills in an unexplored but critical part of American military history."

"David D. Hall provides an enlightening, well organized, easy read . . . on how the Puritans arose from English populism to what they became in America"

“MacGregor . . .

"Well-illustrated and fully annotated, Forgotten Bastards covers its subject on several levels and in a readable style."

"Anthony Everitt's understanding of the world of Alexander the Great does better at solving the mystery of the man than in solving his death."

"No one needs a background in the Renaissance and its Holy Roman Church to enjoy this epic and fast- paced tale of debauchery, intrigue, politics, and more."

"Jeff Guinn studies the very different Edison and Ford as much as the places they camped.

"The individual readers will question much of Crimes and Cover-Ups, agree with other parts, and think hard about the points raised."

"Scholars of Mayhem has more adventure than an Alister McLean novel even though it is nonfiction!"

“The Crowded Hour, with a rousing narrative, does Roosevelt justice, but it serves even better in explaining the 1898 war."

"Rigby tells an exciting tale with action coming in right away in the first chapters."

"Becoming Michelangelo successfully tells of an epic story of an artist through the experiences of the author/artist . . ."

"D'Angour writes for a general audience without losing the reader or the subject of Socrates in Love: the complexities of Greek philosophy."

"The Regency Years reads like a romance novel of its period without the novel but makes an entertaining nonfiction read with superior prose and di

“[That] The Presidents makes a fast, engrossing read comes as no surprise . . . It works on so many levels including for a general audience.”

“Case Red has detail that  . . . would make an educational and entertaining read for the World War II enthusiast.”

"More adventure comes packed on certain pages in So Close to Freedom than in other entire books."

"The prose used in John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy is highly readable and thought provoking, breaking down one of the last, great, m

"Clavin weaves a tale of brothels, buffalo, cattle, Colt revolvers, desert, faro, gunfighters, Indians, railroads, saloons, and wagons but mainly of the friendship between the legends of Wy

"Kate Hubbard tells the story of Bess of Hardwick in clear and engrossing writing while carefully navigating the complexities of building, entitlement, estate, marriage, and politics in Tud

"This beautiful book has a fast and entertaining narrative that encourages the reader to go out to discover and wonder."

“Placeless People delves deeply into the philosophy of human rights but with easy prose and a structure that would give anyone pause when thinking about our times.

"Noted Military Historian Hampton Sides gives the background of the conflict but within the story of the clash personalities, not in a formal introduction.

"When Women Ruled the World (or at least the Egyptian part of it) draws the reader into many less known aspects of ancient history with an informa

"Despite the volume of this book and its controversial interpretations, it makes a fast easy adventure in reading.

"Fredriksen tells this critical history be contrasting the meanings in the sources, particularly in the New Testament, through the story of the money changers, the resurrection, and the End

"The beginnings of class warfare, democracy, individual liberty, local government, racism, and American slavery had beginnings for what would become the United States in Ja

"through this book of nonfiction snippets, however enlightening, the idea of the author seeing a much bigger picture emerges, one best told through the experience of the different parts."

"A Fierce Glory offers spectacle over detail to the benefit of understanding."

"One would think that a biography of an economist would make almost as dull a read as a book on economics.

"Beard avoids the temptation to lecture on what the author imagines as the meaning of the image.

"Weisman here gives a solid outline of the history of Jewish divisiveness that anyone can follow, an important beginning to understanding the truth over myth about Judaism in American histo

“Keep the Days tells the histories of these Civil War works as individual lives, social history, and literature, not as chronicles of battles, god

"Above and Beyond, by different roads, arrives at the single greater epic of the U-2 and the Cuban missile crisis that swung from almost guarantee

"Francis' 'achievements were extraordinary' in no small part from his 'Machiavellian skill that put his peers to shame.’"

“This collection would make a great item to place on some deep space probe for other intelligent life to use to learn who and what we are.”

“The Wizard and the Prophet shows that even the ‘latest’ ideas on creation and energy have origins in the modern beginnings of the environmental movement.”

"Squadron: Ending the Africa Slave Trade consists of well-told, gripping, and graphic stories of individual battles against the East African slave

"Sigmund tells his story in a way that engages and educates but never bores the reader. His easy prose explains why philosophy is important . . ."

"Despite the book's size, the complexity of its subject, and the narrative's variance with common public memory, it is a fast engaging read that corrects, even scatters, misconceptions."

"Essential Witness reminds the reader of what quality, talent, and technical expertise meant in photography and with America's railroads as a subject."

"Read this book. Do not wait until some modern Buffalo Bill makes this story into another epic movie about the West's greatest show!"