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Written by: Gideon Saint
Published by: Arcus Editions
Submitted By: Gideon Saint
(This review submitted by the book’s author) Schoolmaster. Soldier. Spycatcher? It’s May 1940. The Allies are at a standoff with Hitler’s Germany. Second Lieutenant Tennyson “Ted” Drake, until recently a barracks schoolmaster, is on a shadowy reconnaissance trip…
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Written by: Thomas Asbridge
Published by: Simon & Schuster
Submitted By: Geraint
William Marshal was the true Lancelot of his era – a peerless warrior and paragon of chivalry -yet over the centuries, the spectacular story of his achievements passed from memory. Then, in 1861, a young French scholar stumbled upon the…
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Written by: Jeffrey D Wert
Published by: South Mountain Press
Submitted By: Geraint
A fantastic book the 1864 Valley Campaign of the US Civil War. Worth a read
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Written by: Robert Ensor
Published by: Independently Published
Submitted By: Robert Ensor
This review submitted by the book’s author Ego’s Odyssey is a psychological fantasy inspired by Greco-Roman history and mythology. Following a terrible shipwreck, the young deck-hand Ego washes ashore on the uncharted island of Tyria, in the Olearic Sea. He…
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Written by: Simon Scarrow
Published by: Headline
Submitted By: Ece
My first taste of the Eagle series (but certainly not the last), and probably one of the best historical novels I’ve read, written by one of the masters of the genre. The story is set in the Roman Empire, right…
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Written by: Tim Hodkinson
Published by: Head of Zeus -- an Aries Book
Submitted By: Tim Hodkinson
This book submitted by the book’s author. Blood Eagle is the 6th book in a series (The Whale Road Chronicles) that follow the adventures of a misfit company of wolfskin clad vikings (Ulfhednar) that include a young Icelander, an Irish…
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Written by: George Caldwell and Robert Cooper
Published by: Bugle Horn Publications
Submitted By: James Cooper
This is the revised edition of my late father’s co-authored book. It was revered when initially published in 1990 and, later, in 2015 for the 200th anniversary of Waterloo.
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Written by: Francis Augustín O'Reilly
Published by: LSU Press
Submitted By: Geraint
The battle at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862 involved hundreds of thousands of men; produced staggering, unequal casualties (13,000 Federal soldiers compared to 4,500 Confederates); ruined the career of Ambrose E. Burnside; embarrassed Abraham Lincoln; and distinguished Robert E. Lee…
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Written by: Simon Millar
Published by: Osprey
Submitted By: Geraint
Osprey’s study of one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Seven Years’ War (1756-1763). In January 1758 Count Wilhelm Fermor marched into East Prussia at the head of 45,000 Russians. Frederick the Great was dismissive of the Russian army and…
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Written by: Richard Wadge
Published by: The History Press
Submitted By: Geraint
In August 1424 the armies of England, Scotland and France met in the open fields outside the walls of Verneuil in a battle that would decide the future of the English conquests in France. The hero king Henry V had…
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