John R. Vallely
First Family: Abigail and John Adams
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First Family was originally published in 2010, and the reception was overwhelmingly positive. I read the book then and thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to ...Read Review
Reefs and Shoals
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I have sailed with Alan Lewrie, R.N., on sixteen voyages before Reefs and Shoals and was as eager to embark for the ...Read Review
Red Flags
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Corruption in the South Vietnamese government and a lack of commitment on the part of the regular South Vietnamese army are hardly surprising ...Read Review
Brothers in Arms
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Readers will always be grateful to Bernard Cornwell for bringing the common soldiers, and the spectacularly uncommon Richard Sharpe, to life. Iain Gale ...Read Review
The Darkening Field
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Captain Alexei Korolev of the Moscow Militia’s Criminal Investigation Division is ordered to Odessa, Ukraine, to look into the suspicious suicide of ...Read Review
A Burial at Sea
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Charles Lenox, a member of Parliament with an unlikely background as a detective, is charged with a secret diplomatic mission to Egypt to ...Read Review
Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
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One of the negative side effects of the decline in newspaper readership is that fewer people are exposed to the artistry displayed by ...Read Review
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever
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Bill O’Reilly is one of the more well-known conservative media personalities of the contemporary American scene. As such, a large number of ...Read Review
Potsdam Station
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Potsdam Station is the fourth of David Downing’s “Station” series, which covers the very unorthodox World War II experiences of John Russell. ...Read Review
An Evil Eye
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The history of the Ottoman Empire is an endlessly fascinating one, stretching across centuries and populated by a diverse set of people and ...Read Review