Military
Rome: The Eagle of the Twelfth
Editors' choice
This is the story of Demalion of Macedon, who joins the Twelfth Legion. The story opens in AD 57 in…
A Tainted Dawn: The Great War 1792-1815, Book 1
The beginning of an intended series spanning the Georgian/Regency period (or, si vous préférez, the Revolutionary/Napoleonic), A Tainted Dawn follows the fortunes…
Rome’s Executioner: Vespasian II
Rome’s Executioner, set in AD 30, is the second novel in a saga narrating the rise of Vespasian in the…
September Hope: The American Side of a Bridge Too Far
Toward the end of the summer of 1944, the Allied forces were hopeful about an imminent victory over the Third…
Seahawk Burning
During the latter stages of the American Civil War, from 1863 to 1865, Captain Ralph Semmes of the C.S.S. Alabama…
To Do or Die
To Do or Die covers just thirteen days in September 1939, but oh, what harrowing days they are! Eddie Dawson,…
England’s Janissary
Disillusioned by his experiences in the First World War, Kevin Flynn returns to his home in Ireland and takes a…
The First Crusade
Pope Urban’s 1095 clarion call to Western Christendom to re-take Jerusalem from the Turks is the background for many historical…
The Coldest Night
It’s an old story – boy falls in love with the wrong girl and runs off to escape the longing.…
1812
Written in epic style (third person omniscient), Nevin’s book sprawls across North America from Canada to Washington to New Orleans…
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