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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Last Full Measure
Jeff Shaara · 612 pages
The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War
Howard Bahr · 266 pages
This powerful story of a young rifleman's agony during the Battle of Franklin in 1864 ranks with the foremost novels of the Civil War. It has already won praise for it's originality and power in the New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Southern Living and many other journals. The black flower symbolizes the rifleman's sense of doom in the midst of Union cannons firi
Love and War
John Jakes · 1,088 pages
The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper · 240 pages
In 1757, the third year of the French and Indian War, Hawkeye, a colonial scout, and his friends, Chingachkook, a chief of the Mohicans, and his son Uncas risk their lives to guide two English sisters through hostile territory and evade the evil Huron, Magua, who is determined to destroy them.
Hunting the Eagles
Ben Kane · 400 pages
Five long years have passed since the annihilation of three Roman legions in the wilds of Germania. Varus, the general who led the ill-fated army, is long dead and the bones of his 15,000 legionaries moulder in the forests. But not all the Romans were slain in the ambush. Centurion Tullus, a seasoned veteran, survived and now he lives for revenge upon the tribal chieftain Arminius, who masterminde
The Civil War Trilogy: Gods and Generals / The Killer Angels / The Last Full Measure
Michael Shaara, Jeff Shaara
Fortress of Spears
Anthony Riches · 352 pages
Master Of War: The Blooding
David Gilman · 496 pages
Andersonville
MacKinlay Kantor · 767 pages
"The greatest of our Civil War novels." - The New York Times The 1955 Pulitzer Prize winning story of the Andersonville Fortress and its use as a concentration camp-like prison by the South during the Civil War.
Tyrant: Storm of Arrows
Christian Cameron · 383 pages
'[A] great page-turner.' ANCIENT WARFARE 'The minutiae of military logistics, the mediations in inter-tribe rivalries, and the casual contemporary scene-setting prove unexpectedly engrossing ... a sword-slash above the rest of its ilk.' IRISH EXAMINER 'The author has picked a forgotten part of history and brough it to life with wonderful characters and amazingly vivid battle scenes ... a story tha
The Bruce Trilogy: The Steps to the Empty Throne / The Path of the Hero King / The Price of the King's Peace
Nigel Tranter · 1,047 pages
Rebel
John Clagett · 197 pages
A novel of the Confederate Navy, the River War, and the Coastal War. Huger, a naval academy graduate, serves on rivers and oceans, and commands a Southern ironclad. Romance with a happy ending.
The Killer Angels
Michael Shaara · 374 pages
*The Killer Angels* (1974) is a historical novel by Michael Shaara that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1975. The book tells the story of the four days of the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War: June 30, 1863, as the troops of both the Union and the Confederacy move into battle around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and July 1, July 2, and July 3, when the battle wa
Bones of the Hills
Conn Iggulden · 539 pages
The third in Conn Iggulden's No. 1 bestselling Conqueror series.The fatherless boy, exiled from his tribe, whom readers have been following in 'Wolf of the Plains' and 'Lords of the Bow', has grown into the great king, Genghis Khan. He has united the warring tribes and even taken his armies against the great cities of their oldest enemies. Now he finds trouble rising west of the Mongolian plains.
Retreat, Hell!
W.E.B. Griffin · 496 pages
It is the fall of 1950. The Marines have made a pivotal breakthrough at Inchon, but a roller coaster awaits them. While Douglas MacArthur chomps at the bit, intent on surging across the 38th parallel, Brigadier General Fleming Pickering works desperately to mediate the escalating battle between MacArthur and President Harry Truman. And somewhere out there, his own daredevil pilot son, Pick, is los
Gates of Fire
Steven Pressfield · 442 pages
Godine 480.pr.Kr. kod Termopila (Vruća vrata) na sjeveru Grčke odigrala se najveličanstvenija bitka za slobodu tijekom čitave povijesti čovječanstva. U uskom planinskom prolazu iznad Egejskog mora sukobilo se 300 spartanskih vitezova s nadmoćnim snagama perzijskog kralja Kserksa. Od samog početka bilo je jasno da će Spartanci izgubiti bitku. Zašto su ipak bili spremni poginuti? Priča zarobljenog r
Fire in the East
Harry Sidebottom · 518 pages
The year is AD 255. The Roman Imperium is stretched to breaking point, its authority and might challenged along every border. The greatest threat lies in Persia to the east, where the massing forces of the Sassanid Empire loom with fiery menace. There the isolated Roman citadel of Arete awaits inevitable invasion. One man is sent to marshal the defences and shore up the crumbling walls. A man whos
Marching With Caesar: Conquest of Gaul
R.W. Peake
I Pledge Allegiance
Chris Lynch · 183 pages
Best friends Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck all sign up for military service during the Vietnam War. Though in different branches, they swear to look after each other. Morris, stationed off the coast of Vietnam on the USS Boston, is in grave danger when the ship is attacked. Still, he is determined to keep his friends safe.