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Written by: Angus Donald
Published by: Sphere
Submitted By: Daniel Taylor
Lots of readers ask Bernard Cornwell if he’d consider writing a Robin Hood story in the future. Well he’s too late because Mr Donald has written it already. It is similar in style to the King Arthur Trilogy with Alan…
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Written by: Cecelia Holland
Published by: Forge Books
Submitted By: Grace
I LOVE this book, If you liked Cornwell’s Saxon Chronicles, and Tim Severin’s Viking Trilogy then this book will be a welcome addition. Holland continues after this book with The Witches’ Kitchen, Varanger, The Serpent Dreamer, and High City but…
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Written by: Steig Larsson
Published by: Quercus
Submitted By: June Young
The first 50 pages are a bit descriptive but after that this is one of the best crime novels I’ve ever read. Set in Sweden there is a very unlikely ‘heroine’ – an expert computer hacker who is borderline Aspergers…
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Written by: Dudley Pope
Published by: Pen & Sword Maritime
Submitted By: Christopher Jaques
I read this book in between my usual “Cornwell / Iggulden et al” having been drawn to it on the shelves at a bookshop. Originally written in 1963 it has been re-published by Pen & Sword Maritime. It is the…
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Written by: Sharon Kay Penman
Published by: Penguin
Submitted By: Lisa Hughes & Justin Brown
This book details the life of Richard III of England from a sympathetic point of view. Penman allows the reader to come to see the man as a human being trying to do the best with what live gave him…
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Written by: Walter R Borneman
Published by: HarperCollins
Submitted By: Alan McNab
Not a fictitious story but just a telling of this period in history. The author is excellent in his narrative of the whole period. Very well written and couldn’t put it down!
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Written by: Tim O'Brien
Published by: Houghton Mifflin, 1990
Submitted By: Torr Fassett
I happened upon this book during my college courses, and didn’t think I would enjoy it. Generally speaking, books concerning Vietnam cover a generally bleak and sordid black and white sentiment: valiant soldiers fighting for their country, or horrible tales…
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Written by: Steven Saylor
Published by: St.Martin's Press
Submitted By: Jack Jiang
As the title says, this is a historical fiction on the eternal city. From its founding Rome had been shrouded in myth. Here is a highly readable novel on how it all started, and the transformations she underwent over the…
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Written by: Rick Bass
Published by: Mariner
Submitted By: Zach
Takes place shortly after Texas broke off from Mexican rule and became its own Republic. The story is told in a unique way and has good deal of historical fact mixed in. Could not put down this book.
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Written by: Brian Walters
Published by: Wilder Publications
Submitted By: Brian Walters
This book contains a variety of poems that read more like prose, many of which are narratives based on historical incidents. The title poem concerns a French soldier trying to survive the horrors of Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow in 1812….
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