Davis: 5083 books
The Ides of April
A Flavia Albia Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Falco: The Next Generation––Flavia Albia has taken up her father's profession. Only, now Rome is a more dangerous, mercurial place than it was back in dear old dad's day . . .
Flavia Albia is the adopted daughter of Marcus Didius Falco and Helena Justina. From her mother, she learned how...
The Spook Who Spoke Again
A Short Story by Lindsey Davis (Falco: The New Generation)
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Marcus Didius Alexander Postumus is a special boy. He is twelve, or perhaps eleven. He has two mothers and various possible fathers, so he worries who will take care of him. He is self-confident yet vulnerable, intelligent yet sinister. He knows not many people like him.
When his birth mother,...
A War Like No Other
How the Athenians and Spartans Fought the Peloponnesian War
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
One of our most provocative military historians, Victor Davis Hanson has given us painstakingly researched and pathbreaking accounts of wars ranging from classical antiquity to the twenty-first century. Now he juxtaposes an ancient conflict with our most urgent modern concerns to create his most engrossing...
The Feats of an Unsung American Heroine
The Triumphs of Mrs. Millie
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
The book commemorates my mother, Millie B. Davis, for her achievements and contributions as a virtuous woman and mother, devoted Christian, outstanding member of the community, and loyal citizen of the United States. Mothers play an indispensable role in the existence of the human race; without them,...
Unholy Rites
The Sexual Torture of a Little Boy
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
In 1957, the life of a seven-year-old Sydney boy was about to be torn asunder. For five years little John Davis was raped, intoxicated, drugged and lied to by a priest. The consequences were dire, including drug and alcohol abuse, self-harming, attempted suicide and severe mental illnesses which persist...
by Victor Davis Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2004
The effects of war refuse to remain local: they persist through the centuries, sometimes in unlikely ways far removed from the military arena. In Ripples of Battle,the acclaimed historian Victor Davis Hanson weaves wide-ranging military and cultural history with his unparalleled gift for battle narrative...
The Second World Wars
How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
A definitive account of World War II by America's preeminent military historian
World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a war been fought on so many diverse landscapes and in so many different ways, from rocket attacks in London to jungle fighting in Burma...
Between War and Peace
Lessons from Afghanistan to Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In his acclaimed collection An Autumn of War, the scholar and military historian Victor Davis Hanson expressed powerful and provocative views of September 11 and the ensuing war in Afghanistan. Now, in these challenging new essays, he examines the world’s ongoing war on terrorism, from America to...
by Victor Davis Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 1998
The ancient Greeks were for the most part a rural, not an urban, society. And for much of the Classical period, war was more common than peace. Almost all accounts of ancient history assume that farming and fighting were critical events in the lives of the citizenry. Yet never before have we had a...
by Victor Davis Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In this revealing broadside, Victor Davis Hanson explains how President Obama has imprinted his domestic ideology of victimhood onto a therapeutic, Carter-inspired foreign policy. In Obama’s vision, the United State renounces its role as a defender of the postwar order and instead becomes an agent...
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2016
The book connects with the growing Black Lives Matter movement, the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement that has intensified since Israel's latest assualt on Gaza
Angela Davis is internationally renowned and among the most well respected voices and leaders in the civil rights and black...
Don't Know Much About the Civil War
Everything You Need to Know About America's Greatest Conflict but Never Learned
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
“Highly informative and entertaining…propels the reader light years beyond dull textbooks and Gone with the Wind.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
It has been 150 years since the opening salvo of America’s War Between the States. New York Times bestselling author Ken Davis tells us everything...
The Civil War in Georgia
A New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Georgians, like all Americans, experienced the Civil War in a variety of ways. Through selected articles drawn from the New Georgia Encyclopedia (www.georgiaencyclopedia.org), this collection chronicles the diversity of Georgia’s Civil War experience and reflects the most current scholarship in...
by Glenn Davis
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Love and Danger in the Old West is stories of legendary characters and the women who loved them. The stories begin with the confrontation between Wild Bill Hickok and Davis Tutt. These two men clashed over a watch taken from Hickok because of an unpaid debt. However, this deadly confrontation had...