If you're still looking for a holiday gift for a history fan, you might want to consider a little novel that an old friend of mine back home has just published: Die Fasting.
Here's the blurb from his site:
The year is 1758, and though the locale is workaday New York, the landscape is wildly exotic. Our fresh-faced hero is Thomas Dordrecht, raised on a remote farm—in the heart of modern Brooklyn—speaking both Dutch and English. Though he thinks himself unusually worldly, he has no idea what he’ll face when he agrees to defend the claims of King George II in the brutal French and Indian War. In six exciting months, he gains a lifetime’s education not only in honor, courage, and tenacity, but in rashness, cowardice, falsehood … and murder!
Congratulations, Jon. May this be the first of many!
