Military
Defender of Rome
Editors' choice
Gaius Valerius Verrens returns to Rome from the campaigns against the Britons a changed man. He is a Hero of…
Hannibal: Enemy of Rome
Don’t let the title fool you: this is not a book about Hannibal. It is, however, about the beginning of…
The End of Sparta
In 371 B.C.E., the Theban general Epaminondas and his army of farmers defeated the Spartans against staggering odds at the…
Who Shot the Water Buffalo?
This is the story of a man who wasn’t all that strange – at least until after his Vietnam experience.…
Conquest
The Battle of Trafalgar has been won, but even before Nelson’s body has been interred, Captain Thomas Kydd finds himself…
Potsdam Station
Potsdam Station is the fourth of David Downing’s “Station” series, which covers the very unorthodox World War II experiences of…
On His Majesty’s Service
Matthew Hervey is back in the saddle after a three-year absence. The eleventh novel in the series, On His Majesty’s…
Devil’s Charge
When I was at school our history books gave the impression that the English Civil War was a rather gentlemanly…
Beat the Drums Slowly
Set in Spain during the Peninsular War, the story follows the 106th regiment, led by Sir John Moore, as the…
The Final Storm
This last novel in Shaara’s World War II series begins late in the war in February 1945. War in the…
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