Military
Arrows of Fury
Arrows of Fury continues the career of Marcus Valerius Aquila, condemned to die a dishonourable death by the Emperor Commodus…
The Philosopher Prince
Set in 355 AD, the book follows on an earlier novel by Waters, Cast Not the Day. It opens with…
King of Kings
‘Sidebottom’s prose blazes with searing scholarship,’ proclaims The Times. As an academic who tries to write historical fiction I am…
Arrows of Fury
Arrows of Fury continues the career of Marcus Valerius Aquila, condemned to die a dishonourable death by the Emperor Commodus…
Hitler’s War: September 1938 — War is declared
Many people regard alternative history as neither legitimate history nor legitimate historical fiction. Yet the past has meaning only in…
No Less Than Victory
The final novel in this three book series starts in November 1944 in the middle of a B-17 bombing mission…
Churchill’s German Army
Some 10,000 German and Austrian refugees, many of whom were Jews, enlisted in the British army, navy and air force…
Small Wars
Cyprus 1956. The newly promoted Major Hal Treherne is sent to the garrison at Episkopi, where his wife Clara…
Spies in the Garden
Just before America’s entry into World War II, young journalist Harry Ross is sent to Burma by Wild Bill…
An Ill Wind
It is always awkward when you start reading a series several books in, and it took me some time to…
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