Best Historical Fiction (Adventure and Espionage)
Explore the best historical fiction books packed with thrilling adventure and gripping espionage. Discover top-rated tales of intrigue, daring missions, and epic journeys through time.
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Night Soldiers
by Alan Furst
Bulgaria, 1934. A young man is murdered by the local fascists. His brother, Khristo Stoianev, is recruited into the NKVD, the Soviet secret intelligence service, …
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The Polish Officer
by Alan Furst
September 1939. As Warsaw falls to Hitler’s Wehrmacht, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited by the intelligence service of the Polish underground. His mission: to …
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Dark Star
by Alan Furst
Paris, Moscow, Berlin, and Prague, 1937. In the back alleys of nighttime Europe, war is already under way. André Szara, survivor of the Polish pogroms …
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Dark Voyage
by Alan Furst
“In the first nineteen months of European war, from September 1939 to March of 1941, the island nation of Britain and her allies lost, to …
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Red Gold
by Alan Furst
Deep in occupied France, Red Gold moves with quiet menace as predators from the dark edge of war.
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Kingdom of Shadows
by Alan Furst
“Kingdom of Shadows must be called a spy novel, but it transcends genre, as did some Graham Greene and Eric Ambler classics.”—The Washington Post Paris, …
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The World at Night
by Alan Furst
“First-rate research collaborates with first-rate imagination. . . . Superb.”—The Boston Globe Paris, 1940. The civilized, upper-class life of film producer Jean Casson is derailed …
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Blood of Victory
by Alan Furst
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[Furst] glides gracefully into an urbane pre–World War II Europe and describes that milieu with superb precision.” —Janet Maslin, The …
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The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels
by Patrick O'Brian
This set collects all twenty-one of Patrick O'Brian's seafaring novels about the Royal Navy involving Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin.
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Tides of War
by Steven Pressfield
Brilliant at war, a master of politics, and a charismatic lover, Alcibiades was Athens’ favorite son and the city’s greatest general. A prodigal follower of …
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The Civil War Trilogy
by Michael Shaara
Presents a collection of three novels that present a fictionalized account of the battles of the Civil War.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
A book about love and courage and decency and glory. It is written with a wisdom that washes the mind and cools it. With an …
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The Hunt for Red October
by Tom Clancy
Both the Americans and the Soviets commence an intense naval search when a trusted and skilled Soviet naval officer defects--using the USSR's most valuable nuclear …
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Patriot Games
by Tom Clancy
While vacationing in London, CIA analyst Jack Ryan saves the Prince and Princess of Wales from a terrorist attack and gains the gratitude of a …
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The Cardinal of the Kremlin
by Tom Clancy
As the Star Wars race between the Soviet Union and United States continues to escalate, Colonel Mikkail Filtov, America's agent in the Kremlin, is about …
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Clear and Present Danger
by Tom Clancy
The assassinations of the U.S. ambassador and the visiting head of the F.B.I. by Colombian drug lords trigger a mysterious covert response and an investigation …
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
by John le Carre
Featuring an Introduction by the author, the crowning Cold War masterwork is once again available in a collector's trade edition.
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The Honourable Schoolboy
by John le Carre
Trying to rebuild his espionage organization after a traitor is unmasked, George Smiley sends one of his most trusted agents on a mission to the …
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Smiley's People
by John le Carre
A spy story that gives the final convulsive confrontation between George Smiley and his mortal enemy, Karla.
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The Little Drummer Girl
by John le Carre
Charlie, a young English actress, meets a man on a Greek beach who draws her into a world of espionage and terror in the Middle …
