Adventure
The Red Apple
A Thracian boy is conscripted into the Ottoman Janissaries. The author presents something of the life course of soldiers in…
The Baltic Gambit
The Royal Navy’s incorrigible Alan Lewrie has been outsmarting and outfighting Britain’s enemies while simultaneously practicing adultery on a Herculean…
The Right Hand of the Sun
Editors' choice
What is the most dramatic and extraordinary adventure ever recorded? My vote must go to Cortes’s conquest of Mexico in…
The Gods of War
The Roman Empire. The action takes place largely in Italy and the Iberian peninsula and builds up to the…
The Forgotten Legion
In the dying days of the Roman Republic, anarchy rules in the capital. Three men maintain an uneasy triumvirate:…
Caligula: The Tyranny of Rome
The third Roman emperor was the one they called Caligula, infamous in equal part for his cruelty and his…
King of Ithaca
Young Greek soldier, Eperitus, encounters a group of warriors whilst on his way to see the oracle at Delphi.…
A Knight’s Tale
There is an enormous equestrian painting of a 14th century knight, John Hawkwood, in Florence’s Duomo. One wonders why an…
Pilgrim: The Greatest Crusade
In 1212, crusaders march to the Holy Land in order to wrest it back from the Saracens, who are now…
A Place Beyond Courage
Editors' choice
John FitzGilbert is King’s Marshal to Henry I. His duties are many, including responsibility for the good administration of the…
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