I assume you're here at this website because you like my books. Good. And that also means you might like the books I enjoy reading, and that all of us might enjoy the books that you read, so this is simply a place where we can exchange news of books - any books - not just historical novels. Tell us if you've read something wonderful and entertaining, and we'll post your recommendations and reviews here. And, please, let us know what you think of these recommendations!
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Written by: Ian Fletcher
Published by: Spellmount Publishers
Submitted By: Warwick Louth
A brilliant insightful book looking at the very men and battles fought alongside The Iron Duke Himself. It contains not only orders of battle for all of the battles fought in the Spanish Peninsula but also gives a extremely detailed…
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Written by: Frances Stonor Saunders
Published by: Faber and Faber
Submitted By: Geraint
This is the astonishing story of John Hawkwood an Essex man who inlisted as an Archer during the Hundered Years war and who fought at both Crecy and Poiters. After the peace of Bretigny Hawkwood turned mercenary and went into…
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Published by: Gryphon Books
Submitted By: Gary Lovisi
Paperback Parade, The magazine for paperback readers and collectors, has an issue devoted to collecting Cornwell. Issue #64 contains an interview with Bernard Cornwell, a detailed listing of Bernard’s books and an extensive article by editor Gary Lovisi on collecting…
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Written by: David McCullough
Published by: Simon and Schuster
Submitted By: Jonathan Wood
The latest work from respected American historian and author David McCullough. This book examines a single, critical year in the American Revolutionary War, rather than the entire war itself. McCullough writes with objectivity, giving both American and British viewpoints, avoiding…
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Written by: Mike Ripley
Published by: Severn House, UK
Submitted By: Bernard
An historical novel! It’s brutal, foul-mouthed, extraordinarily witty, and leaves you thinking that this was exactly what Boudica’s rebellion in AD 60 was like.
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Written by: J. A. Baker
Published by: The New York Review of Books, Inc.
Submitted By: Bernard
This book was originally published back in the 60’s. It’s a strange, compelling account of one man’s obsession with peregrine falcons – and it’s beautiful, eerie at times, and astonishing. He follows the falcons across the Essex marshes. The book…
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Written by: Roger Knight
Published by: Perseus Books Group
Submitted By: Bernard
If you want just one biography of Nelson, this is it. A marvellous book which will surely become the classic life.
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Written by: N. A. M. Rodger
Published by: Allen Lane. London
Submitted By: Bernard
This is the second of Rodger’s trilogy on the history of the Royal Navy, and it’s going to be a classic. It tells the story between 1649 and 1815, and is quite brilliant on the Napoleonic perioid. It’s big, scholarly,…
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Written by: Juliet Barker
Published by: Little, Brown. London
Submitted By: Bernard
This is an enthralling account of Henry V’s Campign in 1415. The English army he took to France was small, but of extraordinarily high quality, and it began by besieging Harfleur. From there it all starts to go wrong, until…
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Written by: Wallace Breem
Published by: Weidenfeld & Nicholson History
Submitted By: S. Denny
Eagle in the Snow is a tremendous piece of writing. Viewed against a field of excellent historical fiction available today — our beloved Cornwell much included, as well as Steven Pressfield and others — this is a great read. Much…
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