Military
Warriors
11th century. Apulia in southern Italy is part of a declining Byzantine Empire and increasingly under attack from the Lombards,…
Birth of a Warrior
510 B.C. Ancient Sparta. At the end of the first book in the Spartan Warrior series, Lysander, the half-breed trainee…
The Gladiator
The Gladiator is Simon Scarrow’s ninth book in his Roman series featuring Macro and Cato. This time the intrepid duo…
Empire: Wounds of Honour
Marcus Valerius is a young Roman aristocrat whose family is judicially murdered on a trumped-up treason charge. Keeping just ahead…
King of Kings
Harry Sidebottom continues his Warrior of Rome series where part one – Fire in the East – ended. Marcus Clodius…
Blacksnake’s Path
“Blacksnake” is William Wells, a boy from a Kentucky settlement who was captured by the Miami in 1784. He underwent…
All Other Nights
Editors' choice
The title to this brilliant and thought-provoking novel comes from a question asked to the youngest participant at a Passover…
Seen the Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg
The young Chandler brothers, brash 18-year-old Luke and soft-spoken 16-year-old Thomas, advance to maturity in the blood-soaked fields of Gettysburg…
Darkest Hour
Sergeant Jack Tanner hasn’t even been at Manston training camp for 24 hours before he realises something dodgy is going…
The Burnt-out Town of Miracles
When his village is evacuated by the Finnish army, Timo Vatanen, a village idiot who makes his living as a…
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