Military
Cesare: A Novel of War-Torn Berlin
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The Nazi regime may have had pillage, plunder, and genocide as its raisons d’etre, but Jerome Charyn’s Cesare reminds us that ...Read Review
To the Eastern Seas: Thomas Kydd 22
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1810. Napoleon Bonaparte has been defeated for the time being, and the Navy is ordered to give its attention to other matters. Britain’s ...Read Review
Stalingrad: Letters from the Volga
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This (very) graphic novel immerses the reader in the horrific seven months’ siege of Stalingrad, from August 1942 to February 1943, a bloodbath that claimed ...Read Review
Sword of Kings: A Novel (Saxon Tales)
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In Sword of Kings, the twelfth book in Bernard Cornwell’s popular Saxon series, Uhtred of Bebbanburg has grown older and wiser, but, ...Read Review
Land Beyond the Sea
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In late 1942 German submarines prowl the North Atlantic, all the way to the channels around Newfoundland. There, U-boat 69 has a deadly encounter with ...Read Review
Lions of the Desert
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Cairo during World War II was officially neutral – but like most of the neutral countries, it was a hotbed of spies, counterspies, dazzling ...Read Review
Romans on the Silk Road
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Inspired by the theory that a group of 145 soldiers, captured by the Chinese in 36 BC during their campaign against the nomads of the ...Read Review
The Bridge (The Airborne Trilogy)
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This is Part III and the final instalment of Robert Radcliffe’s Airborne trilogy, following the wartime career of paratrooper Theo Trickey. I ...Read Review
Warrior of Woden (The Bernicia Chronicles)
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AD 642, Anglo-Saxon Britain. Oswald has been King of Northumbria for eight years. Beobrand, the king’s war leader, is now a wealthy warlord ...Read Review
A Close Run Thing
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This, the fifteenth of the John Pearce novels, is set in 1796 with Lieutenant Pearce and his companion Samuel Oliphant trying to get back ...Read Review
