Great Historical Fiction - Adventure Through The Ages
Explore the best adventure historical fiction books that transport you through the ages. Dive into thrilling tales of epic journeys, daring heroes, and rich historical settings.
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Dawn of Empire
by Sam Barone
Five millennia ago, on the eastern bank of the river Tigris, the course of human history changed forever . . . The people of Orak …
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Men of Bronze
by Scott Oden
It is 526 B.C. and the empire of the Pharaohs is dying. Leading the fight to preserve the soul of Egypt is Hasdrabal Barca, Pharaoh's …
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Gates of Fire
by Steven Pressfield
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Steven Pressfield brings the battle of Thermopylae to brilliant life.”—Pat Conroy At Thermopylae, a rocky mountain pass in northern Greece, the feared …
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Memnon
by Scott Oden
Through the deathbed recollections of a mysterious woman, the life of Memnon of Rhodes (375-333 BCE) unfolds with brilliant clarity. It is a record of …
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Pride of Carthage
by David Anthony Durham
This epic retelling of the legendary Carthaginian military leader’s assault on the Roman empire begins in Ancient Spain, where Hannibal Barca sets out with tens …
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SPQR I: The Kings Gambit
by John Maddox Roberts
Blackmail, corruption, treachery, murder--the glory that was Rome. In this Edgar Award-nominated mystery, John Maddox Roberts takes readers back to a Rome filled with violence …
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Under the Eagle
by Simon Scarrow
It is the year 42 AD, and Centurion Macro, battle-scarred and fearless, is in the heart of Germany with the Second Legion, the toughest in …
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Imperial Governor
by George Shipway
Londinium¿s burning. . .This does for the Roman governor, Suetonius Paulinus, what I, CLAUDIUS did for the stuttering Emperor whose armies invaded Britain in AD43: …
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Julian
by Gore Vidal
The remarkable bestseller about the fourth-century Roman emperor who famously tried to halt the spread of Christianity, Julian is widely regarded as one of Gore …
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The Winter King
by Bernard Cornwell
It takes a remarkable writer to make an old story as fresh and compelling as the first time we heard it. With The Winter King, …
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The Deepest Sea
by Charles Barnitz
"An Irish Viking on a magical quest in the turbulent 8th century"--Cover.
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The Last Kingdom
by Bernard Cornwell
In the middle years of the ninth-century, the fierce Danes stormed onto British soil, hungry for spoils and conquest. Kingdom after kingdom fell to the …
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Eaters of the Dead
by Michael Crichton
An ambassador of the tenth-century Caliph of Bagdad is carried off by the Norsemen to endure, for three years, the harshness of their way of …
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The Samurai Banner of Furin Kazan
by Yasushi Inoue
The first English translation of a Japanese literary classic br>Originally published in Japanese in 1959, this classic Japanese novel by writer Yasushi Inoue takes place …
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Captain Blood
by Rafael Sabatini
Peter Blood is a physician and an English gentleman who becomes a pirate out of a rankling sense of injustice. Barely escaping the gallows after …
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Sharpe's Tiger
by Bernard Cornwell
"It was a bloody awful shot," Sharpe said. "My mother could lay a gun better than that." "I didn't think you had a mother," Private …
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The Battle
by Patrick Rambaud
A fictional re-creation of the 1809 battle of Essling captures the events of the conflict, Napoleon's first major defeat, through the experiences of real-life people …
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Flashman
by George MacDonald Fraser
"If ever there was a time when I felt that 'watcher-of-the-skies-when-a-new-planet' stuff, it was when I read the first Flashman."–P.G. Wodehouse The first novel in …
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The Horns of the Buffalo
by John Wilcox
In 1879 the redcoats of the British Army are universally regarded as the finest fighting force in the world. Among them is Lieutenant Simon Fonthill, …
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A Sailor of Austria
by John Biggins
In a historical novel about the last days of the seldom discussed Austrian empire, a 101-year-old former sailor in the Austro-Hungarian Navy narrates this fascinating …
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Cross of Iron
by Willi Heinrich
CROSS OF IRON is the thrilling story of a German platoon cut off far behind Russian lines in the second half of World War II. …