This general history of Sicily and guide to its sights and sites is the perfect supplement to guide books that focus on things like hotels and restaurants. It was written by real historians, the kind who author academic studies, while being presented in understandable language, without arcane prose.
Lou Mendola is one of Sicily's foremost authors, and one of the very few whose work is known beyond Italian borders.
He has been consulted by the Vatican, the BBC, the New York Times, The History Channel and the Almanach de Gotha, and published numerous academic (scholarly) articles over the last thirty years.