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Written by: Geoffrey Wawro
Published by: Cambridge University Press
Submitted By: Geraint
This is a history of the Austro-Prussian-Italian War of 1866, which paved the way for German and Italian unification. It is based upon extensive new research in the state and military archives of Austria, Germany, and Italy. Geoffrey Wawro describes…
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Written by: Rachel Chrastil
Published by: Allen Lane
Submitted By: Geraint
Less than a month after it marched into France in summer 1870, the Prussian army had devastated its opponents, captured Napoleon III and wrecked all assumptions about Europe’s pecking order. Other countries looked on in helpless amazement. Pushing aside further…
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Written by: Stephen Arnell
Published by: Kindle
Submitted By: Bruce Ware Allen
There’s a reason – several reasons, really – that Pompey, not Caesar, was called The Great. Had Pompey not lost the battle of Pharsalus, chances are that Julius Caesar would be a second tier ifigure of Roman history. Journalist Stephen Arnell has …
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Written by: DJ Hamilton
Published by: Independently Published
Submitted By: DJ Hamilton
(This review submitted by the book’s author) The New Empire finally concludes the Governor’s Men trilogy, 25 years after its inception! The Toradon brothers are in thick of the action once again; Cassus more enthusiastically than Vil! With the looming…
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Written by: Robert Rae
Published by: Independently Published
Submitted By: Robert Rae
(This review submitted by the book’s author) The story is set during the Wars of Scottish Independence and follows the fictional Thomas Crauford’s quest to recover his murdered father’s coveted silver thistle brooch. The silver thistle was given to…
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Written by: Gideon Saint
Published by: Arcus Editions
Submitted By: Gideon Saint
(This review submitted by the book’s author) Schoolmaster. Soldier. Spycatcher? It’s May 1940. The Allies are at a standoff with Hitler’s Germany. Second Lieutenant Tennyson “Ted” Drake, until recently a barracks schoolmaster, is on a shadowy reconnaissance trip…
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Written by: Thomas Asbridge
Published by: Simon & Schuster
Submitted By: Geraint
William Marshal was the true Lancelot of his era – a peerless warrior and paragon of chivalry -yet over the centuries, the spectacular story of his achievements passed from memory. Then, in 1861, a young French scholar stumbled upon the…
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Written by: Jeffrey D Wert
Published by: South Mountain Press
Submitted By: Geraint
A fantastic book the 1864 Valley Campaign of the US Civil War. Worth a read
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Written by: Robert Ensor
Published by: Independently Published
Submitted By: Robert Ensor
This review submitted by the book’s author Ego’s Odyssey is a psychological fantasy inspired by Greco-Roman history and mythology. Following a terrible shipwreck, the young deck-hand Ego washes ashore on the uncharted island of Tyria, in the Olearic Sea. He…
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Written by: Simon Scarrow
Published by: Headline
Submitted By: Ece
My first taste of the Eagle series (but certainly not the last), and probably one of the best historical novels I’ve read, written by one of the masters of the genre. The story is set in the Roman Empire, right…
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