Books with author Paxton Davis

Three young men at the V.M.I. planned on enlisting with the Confederate Army, but everyone told them they were too young. Just teenagers, the young men weren’t allowed to enlist, even if they were old enough to shoot a gun and march in a row. One morning, that changed. During the night, a messenger came to gather the cadets. The Battle of New Market is the story of the famous battle of the Civil War, in which the Corps of Cadets proved themselves by turning a battle that seemed hopeless into a shining victory for the Confederacy. In this novel, Jack Wythe, Charles Gibboney, and the other cadets bring history to life as they enter into battle and fight a man’s war.

In this biography based on T.E. Lawrence, Davis highlights the soldier’s time in Arabia under Great Britain’s Turkish and Middle Eastern Campaigns. It starts with his picaresque life in Victorian England and embellishes on the importance of chivalry in Ned’s studies. Davis himself wrote that “[his] Ned is not History’s, if history can be said to have one.” Interpretations of this character and his life are many, and vary greatly from biographer to biographer.

Ernest Shackleton, Robert Scott, and Roald Amundsen are on a mission to get to the South Pole. It’s a challenge that none of them is ready to give up, a goal of a lifetime that they’re all eager to achieve. Each man has his own reason for wanting to reach the South Pole: for Amundsen it is dedication and determination; for Shackleton it’s a sense of adventure; and for Scott, it’s honor and patriotism. In this novel based on their real-life accounts, monologues from Shackleton, Scott, and Amundsen tell us about their mission to be the first to arrive at the South Pole.

The Army of Northern Virginia, under Robert E. Lee, was running out of supplies. The war had been going on too long, and now Lee needed to make a risky decision. Some of his best subordinates were injured or lost at battle. As they entered Pennsylvania, hoping to surprise the Army of Potomac, they encountered them head on. In this novel, both the fictional version of Lee’s tragedy and the account of an anonymous Confederate soldier take the reader into the three long days of the Battle of Gettysburg in a vivid, powerful way.