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Written by: Deuteronomy Maxwell
Published by: Independently Published
Submitted By: Deuteronomy Maxwell
This review submitted by the book’s author August 1945. The war is over. But somebody is still killing German soldiers. When the mutilated corpse of Ludwig Mises, a mountain infantryman turned racketeer, comes tumbling down a waterfall near the…
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Written by: Christopher Duffy
Published by: Emperor's Press
Submitted By: Geraint
Rossbach and Leuthen are included in the Great Battles of History •Frederick made himself one of the Great Captains by these victories •Prussian military prowess became legendary They called it Prussia’s Glory. But the Franco-German army swept away at Rossbach,…
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Written by: Craig Pennington
Published by: Independently Published
Submitted By: Craig Pennington
This review submitted by the book’s author An Epic Story of Scotland and Ireland in the 17th and 18th Centuries Fulfilling a once-forgotten dream, young Alexander Moorhead and his mother risk their lives on a perilous voyage to America…
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Written by: R. Cameron Cooke
Published by: Independently Published
Submitted By: R. Cameron Cooke
This review submitted by the book’s author 48 B.C., Dyrrachium – Rome is embroiled in civil war… The armies of Caesar and Pompey have played cat and mouse along the coast of Greece for months. Through endless marches and…
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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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