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Posted: 6/28/2021 5:17:26 PM EDT
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Quoted: As the title says, I’m looking for a good historical fiction book. Just curious if anyone has any recommendations. I have always enjoyed the Hornblower series. |
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Posted: 6/28/2021 5:41:17 PM EDT
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QB VII by Leon Uris
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Posted: 6/28/2021 5:46:23 PM EDT
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I'll never pass up an opportunity for most Ken Follett especially his WWII stuff and I personally enjoyed his Kingsbridge and Century Series.
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Posted: 6/28/2021 6:06:16 PM EDT
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Edward Rutherford.
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Posted: 6/28/2021 6:35:22 PM EDT
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The Frontiersmen
Jack Hinson's One Man War |
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Posted: 6/28/2021 6:57:12 PM EDT
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Gentle Propositions. The author is a member.
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Posted: 6/28/2021 9:51:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'll never pass up an opportunity for most Ken Follett especially his WWII stuff and I personally enjoyed his Kingsbridge and Century Series. Have you read “ On Wings of Eagles”? It’s non fiction but it reads as good as his fiction. |
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Posted: 6/29/2021 8:53:44 AM EDT
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Totally, either the summer of '84 or '85 that poor book got its pages read blank by 11/12yr old me. Helped fill the afternoons when Aug west TX was blistering while spending the summer with grandparents.
Reply fail, but f it it's Tuesday.... |
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Posted: 6/29/2021 9:59:35 AM EDT
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Thanks, these all look like great options!
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Posted: 6/30/2021 10:41:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Frontiersmen Jack Hinson's One Man War I’ll second The Frontiersmen and recommend Jeff Shaara’s books, especially the 3 parter civil war series: Gods and Generals, Killer Angels (written by his dad) and the Last Full Measure. |
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Posted: 7/8/2021 6:19:00 PM EDT
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Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell on the Napoleonic war.
ETA Chronological order https://www.thoughtco.com/the-sharpe-books-in-chronological-order-1221110 |
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Posted: 7/8/2021 6:46:08 PM EDT
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Seconds on the Richard Sharpe series. I've read through it 2X, my absolute favorite books.
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Posted: 7/8/2021 6:53:21 PM EDT
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The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie was a good one.
ETA: Oh, and try Blood Meridian. |
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Posted: 7/8/2021 6:56:13 PM EDT
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The Brotherhood of War series by W.E.B. Griffin
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Posted: 7/10/2021 8:29:50 PM EDT
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Matterhorn.
Though after listening to Marlantes' interviews and reading his other works, I presume that the "fiction" designation seemed like a legal maneuver. IE there is at least one personal recollection from his tour given during PBSs Vietnam series that appeared in the above book. |
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Posted: 7/20/2021 2:20:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Richard Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell on the Napoleonic war. I will have to try the Sharpe series, I loved both The Warlords Chronicles and The Last Kingdom series by Bernard Cornwell. |
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Posted: 8/3/2021 5:44:11 PM EDT
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The Winter King, Excalibur, and Enemy of God by Bernard Cornwell. The King Arthur story set in post-Roman Britain where it belongs, complete with lice and a high infant mortality rate.
ETA someone beat me to it. Damn good books. |
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Posted: 8/3/2021 7:05:39 PM EDT
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Men with Green Faces.
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Posted: 8/26/2021 10:37:46 PM EDT
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Do you want only straight fiction?
Or are you interested in fantasy elements at all? |
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Posted: 9/20/2021 11:27:21 PM EDT
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Hornblower, Sharpe, WEB Griffin as mentioned.
Partrick O'Brian novels. (Master and Commander movie was adapted from these) Steven Pressfield novels. Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and Border Trilogy. Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle Eagle in the Snow by Wallace Breem. Romans on the German frontier, this is on my top 10 books ever. Siege, A Novel of the Eastern Front 1942 by Russ Schneider. Germans surviving on the eastern front. Another of my top 10 ever. |
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Posted: 9/21/2021 8:00:16 PM EDT
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Casca the Eternal Mercenary series.
ETA, I also like an author named Harry Turtledove, he writes some very interesting alternate semi historical stories. Try "Guns of the South", a civil war story with a heck of a twist. |
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Posted: 10/29/2021 10:52:56 PM EDT
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"Gilgamesh: the King" by Robert Silverberg. A cognizant retelling of the Gilgamesh Epic in novel form.
I have read it...I dunno...50 times? |
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Posted: 10/29/2021 10:58:25 PM EDT
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Ridgeline by Punke
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Posted: 11/9/2021 3:59:39 PM EDT
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I , also would second W.E.B. Griffin. Some of the best series I've read.
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Posted: 2/28/2022 12:00:17 PM EDT
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I agree K. F has some great stuff! I read the Saboteur by Andrew Gross and it was probably my fav WW2 historical fiction book to date.
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Posted: 3/8/2022 9:49:15 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The Brotherhood of War series by W.E.B. Griffin This. Or The Corps, anything by Griffin is entertaining. |
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Posted: 3/22/2022 10:39:13 AM EDT
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Lonesome dove series. The order of release is different than the story itself and I read lonesome dove first and then realized there was a book prior to it but written after.
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Posted: 3/25/2022 4:48:47 PM EDT
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Conn Iggulden has a Mongol series (Conqueror series), a Roman series (Emperor), a medieval series (Wars of the Roses), and a Greco-Persian wars "series". The latter is not technically a "named" series, but the books cover Marathon, Thermopylae/Artemisium, Salamis, Plataea, the Peloponnesian War, and Cunaxa/The Anabasis.
Bernard Cornwell's series (Arthur, Saxon/Uhtred, and Sharpe books) have already been mentioned, and are excellent reads. I'll add his Archer/Grail quest series (English bowmen and Crecy), as well as 1356 (Poitiers) and Agincourt. While not fiction, Cornwell's "Waterloo" reads as easily as any of his novelizations, and is a great book on the battle. The ultimate historical fiction series, however, is Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander series. In that Age of Sail genre, Julian Stockwin's "Kydd" series is fairly good, "Hornblower" is quite good, but Master and Commander is far and away superior, IMO. C.S. Forester is typically linked with the Horatio Hornblower books, but he also wrote some excellent stand-alone historical fiction: "Rifleman Dodd" (Napoleonic guerilla war in Spain), "A Pawn Among Kings" (Napoleon's invasion of Russia), "The Ship" (WW2 Mediterranean Royal Navy), "The Good Shepherd" (aka "Greyhound"). |
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Posted: 3/25/2022 5:34:12 PM EDT
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