David King

Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris (2011)

This book is pretty much as exciting as true crime can get. I can't even begin to fathom that this stuff actually happened.The only reason I didn't give it five stars, however, was the author tends to go on long rants about people and occurrences completely unrelated to the story such as Albert C...

Finding Atlantis: A True Story of Genius, Madness, and an Extraordinary Quest for a Lost World (2006)

I was astonished by how much I enjoyed this book, which I devoured in a single day. Olof Rudbeck was the discoverer of the lymph system, a keen astronomer, a composer, a singer, an instrumentalist, a top-flight architect -- in short, a sort of paradigm for Renaissance Man (the plant genus Rudbeck...

Vienna 1814: How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made War, Peace, and Love at the Congress of Vienna (2008)