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Written by: Gordon Doherty
Published by: Available as an eBook and soon in print on all online book stores
Submitted By: Gordon Doherty
(REVIEW POSTED BY THE BOOK’S AUTHOR). The Roman Empire is crumbling, and a shadow looms in the east. 376 AD: the Eastern Roman Empire is alone against the tide of barbarians swelling on her borders. Emperor Valens juggles the paltry…
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Written by: Richard Denning
Published by: Mercia Books
Submitted By: Richard Denning
(REVIEW POSTED BY THE BOOK’S AUTHOR)With the kind permission of Bernard Cornwell I post this update about my Dark Ages Historical Fiction ‘The Amber Treasure’ A new paperback edition of this historical fiction novel written by Richard Denning, has been…
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Written by: Hugh Fitzgerald Ryan
Published by: The Lilliput Press 2010
Submitted By: Hugh Ryan
(This review has been posted by the book’s author)Alice Kyteler, outspoken daughter of a wealthy Flemish banker, has survived four husbands and is beset by the gossip and rivalry of a medieval Anglo-Norman town. Her beautiful maid is Petronilla, child…
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Written by: Ian Royle
Published by: Penpress
Submitted By: Ian Royle
(This review has been posted by the book’s author)Hello to fellow fans of Mr Cornwell’s books! Who loves Obidiah? I am a great fan of Bernard Cornwell and absolutely love the Sharpe books! I am a writer myself and have…
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Written by: Brian Walters
Published by: Wilder Publications
Submitted By: Brian Walters
(This review has been posted by the book’s author)This is Brian Walters’ third book and it covers stories based on factual events during the American Civil War period. Not only stories about battle, but little known tales such as the…
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Written by: John F Luzader
Published by: Savas Beattie
Submitted By: E Sharman
Without a doubt the best account of this campaign and battle; well balanced.Neither side coming out as the good guys or bad – just soldiers doing their best. If you want to know more about this famous battle, get this…
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Written by: Jed Kurzban
Published by: Createspace
Submitted By: Jed Kurzban
(This review has been posted by the book’s author)This is a book in the genre of historical fiction surrounding the fall of Judea, the Roman world expanding and the birth of Christianity set amongst a love story. Worlds collide, Empires…
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Written by: Jeannette Walls
Published by: Virago Press Ltd.
Submitted By: Susan Engler
What an amazing read. A memoir of a New York Times writer. Reveals the woman’s childhood raised in poverty by nomadic parents, who dragged her and her siblings all over the south western American Desert towns. The father is an…
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Written by: Ellen Evert Hopman
Published by: Llewellyn Worldwide
Submitted By: Ellen Evert Hopman
Once again, Ellen Evert Hopman has created a book full of good information and excellent writing. This may well be her best book yet. Druid Isle is the second in a series of three books about life in the third…
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Written by: Scott Wendt
Published by: Redlanders Press
Submitted By: Scott Wendt
(This review has been posted by the book’s author)Captain Javier Montez, a cavalry officer in the Mexican army, commanded by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, finds himself with his wife Maria on the fields of San Jacinto, the last…
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