Wiley
Sovereigns of the Sea: The Quest to Build the Perfect Renaissance Battleship
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The large and heavily armed “ship of the line” or “battleship” played a central role in naval history from early times to the ...Read Review
The First Samurai : The Life and Legend of the Warrior Rebel, Taira Masakado
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Taira Masakado, a fifth-generation descendant of Emperor Kashiwabara, is a cultured aristocrat whose response to attack prompts an appropriate response. From that ...Read Review
Was Napoleon Poisoned? And Other Unsolved Mysteries of Royal History
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If King Tut was murdered, why? Did King Arthur really exist? Compelling evidence suggests a Roman general may have been the basis ...Read Review
Tutankhamun’s Armies: Battle and Conquest during Ancient Egypt’s Late 18th Dynasty
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Despite the specific title, this book covers more than the short reign of the boy-king Tutankhamun; it is a complete overview of Egyptian ...Read Review
Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend
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Born John Henry Holliday, Doc Holliday became a legend in the American West, primarily due to his association with the Earp brothers and ...Read Review
Eyewitness to Irish History
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The preeminent Celtic scholar, Peter Berresford Ellis—who also writes the Sister Fidelma series as Peter Tremayne—has gathered 1500 years of original source ...Read Review
Twilight of Splendor
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Subtitled The Court of Queen Victoria during Her Diamond Jubilee Year, this narrative history suggests that “Twilight of Splendor” is limited to detailing ...Read Review
Alamo in the Ardennes
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Focusing on the opening of the Battle of the Bulge, this book tells the story of the men who bore the brunt of ...Read Review
Four Girls from Berlin
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When the author was small, a rabbi who had survived the Holocaust told her, “In you has your whole family been redeemed.” Meyerhoff’...Read Review
Marc Antony’s Heroes
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The fourth in his Roman Legion series, Mark Antony’s Heroes brings us the story of the III Gallica, one of the early ...Read Review
