C Davis: 154 books
More Deadly Than War
The Hidden History of the Spanish Flu and the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
From bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis comes a fascinating account of the Spanish influenza pandemic 100 years after it first swept the world in 1918.
"Davis deftly juggles compelling storytelling, gruesome details, and historical context. More Deadly Than War reads like a terrifying...
The Human Story
Our History, from the Stone Age to Today
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Has there ever been a history of the world as readable as this?
In The Human Story, James C. Davis takes us on a journey to ancient times, telling how peoples of the world settled down and founded cities, conquered neighbors, and established religions, and continues over the course of history,...
by Amanda C. Davis, Megan Engelhardt
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Witches have stories too. So do mermaids, millers' daughters, princes (charming or otherwise), even big bad wolves. They may be a bit darker--fewer enchanted ball gowns, more iron shoes. Happily-ever-after? Depends on who you ask. In Wolves and Witches, sisters Amanda C. Davis and Megan Engelhardt...
Battle at Bull Run
A History of the First Major Campaign of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2012
Two great, untested armies were readying for the first—and what many believed would be the last—major conflict between North and South. On the eve of July 21, 1861, one Northerner wrote: “The sky is perfectly clear, the moon is full and bright, and the air was still as if it were not within...
Don't Know Much About History, Anniversary Edition
Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
“Reading [Kenneth C. Davis] is like returning to the classroom of the best teacher you ever had.” —People
Revised, updated, and expanded, the Twentieth Anniversary Edition of Kenneth C. Davis’s classic anti-textbook Don’t Know Much About History revitalizes the landmark book’s ability...
Commerce in Color
Race, Consumer Culture, and American Literature, 1893-1933
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Commerce in Color exploresthe juncture of consumer culture and race by examining advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and public events in the United States from 1893 to 1933. James C. Davis takes up a remarkable range of subjects—including the crucial role publishers Boni and Liveright played...
Look Away!
A History of the Confederate States of America
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2002
William C. Davis, one of America's best Civil War historians, here offers a definitive portrait of the Confederacy unlike any that has come before. Drawing on decades of writing and research among an unprecedented number of archives, Look Away! tells the story of the Confederate States of America...
Don't Know Much About Mythology
Everything You Need to Know About the Greatest Stories in Human History but Never Learned
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2009
The latest installment in the New York Times bestselling Don't Know Much About® series -- a magical journey into the timeless world of mythology
It has been fifteen years since Kenneth C. Davis first dazzled audiences with his instant classic Don't Know Much About® History, vividly bringing...
America's Hidden History
Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Kenneth C. Davis, author of the phenomenal New York Times bestseller Don't Know Much About History, presents a collection of extraordinary stories, each detailing an overlooked episode that shaped the nation's destiny and character. Davis's dramatic narratives set the record straight, busting myths...
Stages of Emergency
Cold War Nuclear Civil Defense
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2007
In an era defined by the threat of nuclear annihilation, Western nations attempted to prepare civilian populations for atomic attack through staged drills, evacuations, and field exercises. In Stages of Emergency the distinguished performance historian Tracy C. Davis investigates the fundamentally...
A History of Medieval Europe
From Constantine to Saint Louis
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
R.C. Davis provided the classic account of the European medieval world; equipping generations of undergraduate and ‘A’ level students with sufficient grasp of the period to debate diverse historical perspectives and reputations. His book has been important grounding for both modernists required...
The Orphan Brigade
The Kentucky Confederates Who Couldn't Go Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
On September 18, 1861, ominous sounds of battle thundering in the distance, the Kentucky legislature voted to align itself with the Union. It was a decision which tore at the heart of the state, splitting apart families and severing friendships. For the newly formed First Kentucky Brigade, it marked...
by William C. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2012
One was called "a tin can on a shingle"; the other, "a half-submerged crocodile."
Yet, on a March day in 1862 in Hampton Roads, Virginia, after a five-hour duel, the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Virginia (formerly the U.S.S. Merrimack) were to change the course of not only...
The Moon Man Omnibus
The Complete Series by Frederick C. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In 1933, a macabre new hero exploded into the pages of the pulp magazine Ten Detective Aces, a Depression-era Robin Hood who wore a spherical, reflective mask that made his head look like the shining moon. Police detective by day and rogue-ish thief by night, he called himself the Moon Man, and his...