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Written by: John Pitts
Published by: Barcode Love
Submitted By: John Pitts
(This review submitted by the book’s author) This novel explores the story of Carausius and Allectus, two Britons who rebelled against Roman rule in the late 3rd century AD. The narrative combines historical facts with fictional elements to fill gaps…
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Written by: Christopher Hibbert
Published by: Hippocrene Books
Submitted By: Geraint
This is an account of the Gordon Riots, one of the most violent outbreaks of popular protest in British history. In 1780, Lord George Gordon MP led 50,000 people to present a petition calling for the repeal of the 1778…
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Written by: David Preston
Published by: OUP USA
Submitted By: Geraint
On July 9, 1755, British regulars and American colonial troops under the command of General Edward Braddock, commander in chief of the British Army in North America, were attacked by French and Native American forces shortly after crossing the Monongahela…
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Written by: Edward Rutherfurd
Published by: Arrow
Submitted By: John
Rutherfurd does a series of books about various places, such as Paris, London, Stonehenge and, like Cornwell, makes intriguing stories based on actual history. His method is a family tree of characters, which tells a story one generation at a…
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Written by: Rick Atkinson
Published by: Henry Holt & Company
Submitted By: AK
First book in a trilogy
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Written by: Nathan Cole
Published by: Del Buono
Submitted By: Chris Hair
A Raven’s Prayer is a sweeping historical fiction set in Northumbria in 710AD. An intuitive monk, Aldwin, is drawn into a bloody mystery woven by real historical figures including Bishop Wilfrid, The Venerable Bede and the then king of Nortumbria,…
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Written by: James Arnett
Published by: FriesenPress
Submitted By: James Arnett
This review submitted by the book’s author: This is a novel of the American Revolution from the perspective of the Loyalists who see the Patriots as traitorous Rebels. ‘A vivid. offbeat picture of life during the Revolutionary War’–Kirkus Reviews
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Written by: A. R. Zamaku
Published by: Independently Published
Submitted By: A. R. Zamaku
This review submitted by the book’s author: In 1349, England, Alister Warde, a war hero of Crécy and now a disgraced knight, awaits execution in the depths of Windsor’s prison. As King Edward III hosts an extravagant Saint George’s Day…
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Written by: Michael Arnold
Published by: August Books
Submitted By: Josh & Becca
Fast-paced, absorbing novel, set at the time of the Roman conquest of Britain. This is the first in what will be a series, form the author of the Civil War Chronicles (Stryker) and tells the story of the invasion from…
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Written by: Patrick Radden Keefe
Published by: Williams Collins
Submitted By: Geraint
One night in December 1972, Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was abducted from her home in Belfast and never seen alive again. Her disappearance would haunt her orphaned children, the perpetrators of this terrible crime and a whole society…
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