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Written by: K Avard
Published by: Independently Published
Submitted By: K. Avard
(This review submitted by the book’s author) Vienna in the 17th century teeters on the boundary West and East halves of the ‘civilized world,” its people beset by unfriendly neighbors on all sides. Less blinded by the old hatreds nursed…
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Written by: Rob McLaren
Published by: Independently Published
Submitted By: Rob McLaren
(This review submitted by the book’s author) France, 1793. Four years after the Revolution, France remains in anarchy. Captain Andre Jobert is a veteran cavalry officer in the French army who joins a newly raised regiment, the 24th Chasseurs…
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Written by: Peter Hamill
Published by: Little Brown
Submitted By: Keith Abbott
Only recently started reading his novels and Forever was truly engrossing beginning with a quest for revenge in rural Ireland, leading the protagonist to the early settlement of New York where the story gives us a wonderful history of New…
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Written by: Christopher Klein
Published by: Double Day
Submitted By: Geraint
Just over a year after Robert E. Lee relinquished his sword, a band of Union and Confederate veterans dusted off their guns. But these former foes had no intention of reigniting the Civil War. Instead, they fought side by side…
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Written by: Dale M. Chatwin
Published by: Independently Published
Submitted By: Dale M. Chatwin
(This review submitted by the book’s author) Fate & Existence is my most recent publication. It is a sequel to last year’s novel Destiny & Death but can be read as a stand-alone novel. Written and completed during the…
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Written by: Ryder Thompson
Published by: Independently Published
Submitted By: Ryder Thompson
(This review submitted by the book’s author) Not really historical fiction. Mr. Cornwell is my favorite author. This book is about a soldier as most of Mr. Cornwell’s books are. The events are now part of history but there is…
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Written by: Katja Hoyer
Published by: The History Press
(This review submitted by the book’s author) Katja Hoyer’s well-researched and well-written book is the best biography of the German Empire in years. She cogently argues that what started in Versailles’ Hall of Mirrors need not have ended in the…
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Written by: Andrew Joseph Blasco
Published by: Hansen Publishing Group
Submitted By: Andrew Joseph Blasco
(This review submitted by the book’s author) In 1895, Fritz Duquesne, an aristocratic South African, is sent to England for his formal education. During his time there, tensions rise between the British and his homeland as the age of African…
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Written by: Lancelot Schaubert
Published by: Lance Schaubert
Submitted By: Lance Schaubert
(This review submitted by the book’s author) PRANKS. OIL. PROTEST. JOKES BETWEEN NEWLYWEDS. AND ONE HILARIOUS SIEGE OF A MAJOR CORPORATION. Remmy grows up with Beth in Bellhammer, Illinois as oil and coal companies rob the land of…
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Written by: Sandy Antal
Published by: Carleton University Press
Submitted By: Geraint
A Wampum Denied reassesses the much-maligned career of Henry Procter, commander of the British forces, traces the Canadian/British/Native side of the conflict (amid a literature dominated by the American view), and casts new light on an allied military strategy that…
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