Military
The Generals
The Generals is the second in Simon Scarrow’s quartet of novels focusing on Wellington and Napoleon. The book opens in…
The Blooding of Jack Absolute
The Blooding of Jack Absolute, a prequel to the previously-published Jack Absolute, chronicles the bawdy and eventful youth of the…
Rogue Officer
This is the fifth book in the ‘Fancy Jack’ Crossman series, following the adventures of a British soldier through the…
Tree Of Smoke
William “Skip” Sands is training for his CIA job as a spy in Psychological Operations against the Viet Cong in…
Sink The Shigure
Fictional renditions of the peril faced by World War II submariners play a central role in historical novels of naval…
The Diamond Frontier
In 1880, in the South African province of the Transvaal, Simon Fonthill and his sidekick “352” Jenkins are on a…
The Fall of Rome
Attila is dead. The Western Roman Empire is tottering. As every source of order crumbles, life, already brutish and short,…
The Whale Road
This is Robert Low’s first part of a Viking trilogy, and his first novel. Robert Low has been a writer…
Dispensation of Death
Editors' choice
1325: the reign of Edward II.England is in the grip of tyranny. Not so much from the reigning king, who…
Farewell Britannia
In this collection of linked short stories, Simon Young revisits the territory he occupied so beguilingly in A.D. 500, not…
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