Review:After reading this, one can only guess who actually wrote all those "Killing" books. However, as a book of exploration, I found it wanting in the same respect as the Marco Polo book I consumed a few years ago, and that is, the absence of maps. As long as the reader has a good atlas, he or she can follow the treks of both Livingston and Stanley, which provides relief from a monotony of the travels. The atlas enhances excitement for "reading" about the journeys, for they were long and arduous. ... Read more

Review:Found this almost by accident as I was looking for Sides's biography of Kit Carson. I had always wondered why it took so long to find King's killer and it is not until you read this account that you get a real idea. Sides writes in a flowing, almost novelistic style, which is a refreshing change from scholastic biographies. The research is there, it just reads better.
A chilling account, well worth the read. In a day when we are disgusted by Islamic slaughter, it is well to remember that it w... Read more

Review:Takes a bit sort thru all the characters and what is happening .. Then settle in for a real feel period piece of just how close media and law enforcement were. Crime scenes of today do not exist in this who done it.
Feast of people, story and time Read more

Review:Excellent book. There is an entire "American" history out there that hasn't been told. The struggle for Southern Independence was born out of the Declaration of Independence. "When in the course of human events..." How is it that Lee and Davis are "traitors and criminals" when they did the exact same thing that Washington and Jefferson did while they are proclaimed as patriots? Read the book. You won't be taught these things in government schools. They would much rather teach us the commonly acc... Read more

Review:This is a disappointing book that mostly confines its "what if" questions to speculations about the absence of Clausewitzian friction. In short, if things were different, they would have been different.

There are a couple of good essays amongst the chaff. The first essay on WWI speculates about a delayed British entry into the ground campaign and about the effects if Germany kept a strong right and did not push the French out of the sack by attacking Nanci. John Keegan's essay on Germa... Read more

Review:As a participant at the Trinity test, I find the "The Manhattan Project" is a fascinating read. It is a collection of short pithy statements of interest concerning the Project and it's history from a wide variety of involved sources including political and scientific leaders as well as military officers involved. It also has contributions from a few gifted writers who have reseached to subject. Read more

Review:The book is well written with thought provoking insights that answers the critics concerning Jesus' identity. It stops the mouths of naysayers who adamantly deny the One who was, and is, and is to come! Excellent work! Read more

Review:I am surprised, or perhaps not so surprised, that several reviewers feel that this book is unsympathetic to the Comanches. In fact it is quite sympathetic to their world view and situation, but also quite realistic about what was going to happen once the Comanches found themselves opposed to Anglo settlement. There was no future for a raiding people who killed and brutalized those they preyed upon once they faced an encroaching society that would not allow them sanctuary in their homeland, Com... Read more

Review:This was a very interesting and mind opening account of the Indian Geronimo. Since it was in his own words, it gave a very different view of the 'wild west' than previous accounts. Quite interesting. Read more

Review:I thought it to be a very informative and enlightening book.
The book does have ten times the number of names and places that the average reader can keep track of, however, and it must be read with this in mind. Read more