Vikings: The Viking Age from Beginning to End by Stephan Weaver is a historical look at the Vikings. It starts from the Invasion of Britain and goes right through to the end of the Viking era, telling us all about the raids the Vikings were...

We Were Soldiers Too: A Historical Look at Germany During the Cold War From the US Soldiers Who Served There (Volume 2) by Bob Kern shows a part of the Cold War that many people know nothing about. The entire world was watching the conflict...

Meticulously researched and comprehensively annotated, this volume of neglected Americana history, The Civil War Soldiers’ Orphan Schools of Pennsylvania 1864-1899, heavily illustrated with fascinating photographs, drawings, and period documents, is particularly well-attended to by its author Dr. O. David Gold. In a somewhat disingenuous introduction...

As someone who reads every book on the Titanic they can find, I was certain this book would not give me any new information or reveal anything I had not read before. I was quickly proven wrong. An Unsinkable Titanic looks at the sinking of...

The Travels and Travails of Music by Ruth Finnegan is aptly summarized in the sub-title: A tale of music, culture, and radio in the South Seas. I first came across this author when I read her scholarly and insightful work, Communicating: The Multiple Modes of...

In a very interesting, unique and well thought out treatise on many facets of wisdom throughout history, The Pursuit of Wisdom: A Chronological Inquiry of the World's Most Influential Seekers of Wisdom In the Fields of Theology, Philosophy, and Science by author Dean Chavooshian, will,...

In an interesting and well-researched piece of work into the time period of the summer of 1885 in the UK, author David Boyle does a fine job in recounting for his readers what led to the criminalization of homosexuality in Scandal: How Homosexuality Became a...

Flight of Remembrance, A World War II Memoir of Love and Survival by Marina Dutzmann Kirsch is the story of two individuals, Rolf Dutzmann and Lilo Wassull, and their extended families. Kirsch's book tells about their childhood, how the two met, fell in love, and...

The Girl Immigrant by Patricia Ruiz Steele is a wonderful biography of the author's family, specifically Manuela, the author's grandmother. Manuela's family comes from Spain, and they were promised a new life, education for their children, homes and jobs, if they immigrated to Hawaii to...

The Last Days of Adam by Tim Dalgleish takes place during the Holocaust, and not only demonstrates the role of Adam Czerniakow as helping the Jewish population of Poland in his role as Chairman of the Judenrat, but effectively follows the terrible decline of Poland...