Military
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…
Centurion
The story opens on the banks of the River Euphrates, where a Roman cohort is building a fort to protect…
Billy Boy
Editors' choice
This is a fictionalized account inspired by the life of the true Billy Laird, the only American Civil War soldier…
Killing Rommel
Editors' choice
North Africa, 1942. The British Eighth Army is in trouble. The brilliant and daring tactician, Field-Marshal Rommel, and his…
Soldier of Fortune
Edward Marston is famous as a writer of whodunits, which are published under at least three names. For the first…
The Trojan War : A New History
In this most interesting book, Barry Strauss, an expert in ancient military history, places Homer’s The Iliad in its…
A Flag of Truce
Toulon, 1793. In this fourth John Pearce adventure, our hero, now a naval lieutenant, continues to be a thorn in…
An Awkward Commission
This is the third novel in Donachie’s 1790s naval series and so continues the story of John Pearce and his…
Crossed
An unnamed British musician is the protagonist in Galland’s new book, in which the disastrous Fourth Crusade forms the backdrop.…
The Rosetta Key
This sequel to 2005’s Napoleon’s Pyramids finds its engaging, amoral antihero, Ethan Gage, at the tail end of the 18th…
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