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Written by: Robert Downes
Published by: Wandering Press
Submitted By: Robert Downes
This review submitted by the book’s author An epic battle in Native America unites two lovers from the ends of the earth in this story drawn from historic events. The first book in “The Ojibwe Saga” by Robert Downes, “The…
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Written by: Robert Downes
Published by: Blank Slate Press
Submitted By: Robert Downes
This review submitted by the book’s author If you enjoy stories of the Indians of North America, you’ll love “Windigo Moon,” which details 31 years in the life of an Ojibwe couple living on the Upper Great Lakes well before…
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Written by: James R Arnold
Published by: Napoleon Books
Submitted By: Geraint
February 1807 found one of history’s foremost military geniuses, Napoleon Bonaparte, retreating with his battered army from the bloody, inconclusive Battle of Eylau. A mere four months later, Napoleon gained a decisive triumph at the Battle of Friedland. Thereafter, in…
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Written by: Gordon Doherty
Published by: Independently Published
Submitted By: Gordon Doherty
This review submitted by the book’s author. The war at Troy has raged for ten years. Its final throes will echo through eternity… 1258 BC: Surrounded and outnumbered by the army of Agamemnon, King Priam and his Trojan forces fight…
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Written by: Paul L. Dawson
Published by: Frontline Books
Submitted By: Geraint
Seldom studied in French histories and virtually ignored by English writers, the French Army fought on after Waterloo. Many commanders sought to reverse that defeat—at Versailles, Sevres, Rocquencourt, and La Souffel, the last great battle and the last French victory…
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Written by: D. Peter MacLeod
Published by: Douglas & McIntyre
Submitted By: Geraint
In the spring of 1760, after having suffered a brutal winter, Quebec garrison commander James Murray’s troops were vulnerable and reduced to an army of skeletal invalids due to malnutrition and scurvy. Trapped in hostile territory and lacking confidence in…
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Written by: Sarah Taylor
Published by: Independently Published
Submitted By: Sarah Taylor
“This is an interesting biography of the great songwriter Stephen Foster…The reader will learn much about Foster’s life, family, and the times in which he was living. Through stories from his Uncle Struthers, we learn about the Revolutionary War and…
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Written by: David Chandler
Published by: Prentice Hall
Submitted By: Geraint
For anyone with even the barest interest in the Napoleonic Wars this book is a must have. The Campaigns of Napoleon is a masterful analysis and insightful critique of Napoleon’s art of war as he himself developed and perfected it…
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Written by: Jonathan Riley
Published by: Frontline Books
Submitted By: Geraint
The monument to Isaac Brock on Queenston Heights in Canada, as high as Nelson s column in London, pays tribute to the military commander of all troops opposing the American invasion of Canada during the War of 1812. Brock s…
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Written by: William R. Short and Reynir A. Óskarson
Published by: Westholme Publishing
Submitted By: Bruce Franklin
Hello, I was invited to recommend our recent book to your reading club. A finished copy was sent to Mr. Cornwell. The book is a complete investigation into both the martial mindset of the Vikings and the construction, training, and…
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