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Shield-Maiden: Under the Blood Moon by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAs the blood moon rises, the shadow of Ragnarok falls on Uppsala.With the dark days in Dalr behind them, Hervor and Hofund journey to Grund. Hervor’s focus turns to tracking down the sea kings and taking vengeance, but she soon finds that life in Grund is convoluted. Family grudges, secret alliances, and shady friendships abound in the capital...Categorized as:
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![Fall of Kings by David Gemmell, Stella Gemmell]()
Fall of Kings by David Gemmell, Stella Gemmell
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsDarkness falls on the Great Green and the Ancient World is fiercely divided.On the killing fields outside the golden city of Troy, forces loyal to the Mykene King Agamemnon mass.Among them is Odysseus, fabled storyteller and reluctant ally to the Mykene...Categorized as:
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![Mahabharata by William Buck]()
Mahabharata by William Buck
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsFew works in world literature have inspired so vast an audience, in nations with radically different languages and cultures, as the Ramayana and Mahabharata, two Sanskrit verse epics written some 2,000 years ago... -
![Killer of Men by Christian Cameron]()
Killer of Men by Christian Cameron
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsArimnestos is a farm boy when war breaks out between the citizens of his native Plataea and and their overbearing neighbours, Thebes. Standing in the battle line - the wall of bronze - for the first time, alongside his father and brother, he shares in a famous and unlikely victory. But after being knocked unconscious in the melee, he awakes not a hero, but a slave...Categorized as:
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![Shield of Thunder by David Gemmell]()
Shield of Thunder by David Gemmell
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 34 ratingsThe war of Troy is looming, and all the kings of the Great Green are gathering, friends and enemies, each with their own dark plans of conquest and plunder.Into this maelstrom of treachery and deceit come three travellers; Piria, a runaway priestess nursing a terrible secret, Kalliades, a warrior with a legendary sword, and Banokles who will carve his own legend in the battles to come...Categorized as:
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Shield-Maiden: Under the Thunder Moon by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsUnder the thunder moon, the war-horn will sound, and Odin’s Valkyrie will rise.Reunited with Hofund, and with Bolmsö safe from its enemies, Hervor takes her place as jarl. But the All-Father has bigger plans for his favorite shield-maiden. When Hervor learns that Jarl Bjartmar has vowed vengeance on Leif, she knows she must stand by her cousin...Categorized as:
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![The Crow Queen by Melanie Karsak]()
The Crow Queen by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBritain, AD 38, When destiny crowns Cartimandua queen of the Brigantes, she inherits not just the rule of her ancient tribe but an imminent war. Seeking to take advantage of the upheaval amongst the Brigantes, the Parisii tribe strikes. Cartimandua’s enemies soon discover the new Brigantes queen wears a crown of thorns and talons. Carti has no time to waste on petty squabbles... -
![Lord of the Silver Bow by David Gemmell]()
Lord of the Silver Bow by David Gemmell
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsHe is a man of many names. Some call him the Golden One; others, the Lord of the Silver Bow. To the Dardanians, he is Prince Aeneas. But to his friends, he is Helikaon. Strong, fast, quick of mind, he is a bold warrior, hated by his enemies, feared even by his Trojan allies. For there is a darkness at the heart of the Golden One, a savagery that, once awakened, can be appeased only with blood... -
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Shield-Maiden: Gambit of Shadows by Melanie Karsak
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA kingdom at war.A conflict forged in the tragedies of the past.A shield-maiden thrust into the heart of all.Just when Ervie was beginning to break free of the shadows that plagued her, the Gauls set fire to her world. With King Harald murdered, the warhorn calls for revenge. From Skagen to Grund, the Vikings will rally to avenge the heinous attack... -
![The Gates of Athens by Conn Iggulden]()
The Gates of Athens by Conn Iggulden
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEvoking two of the most famous battles of the Ancient World—the Battle of Marathon and the Last Stand at Thermopylae—The Gates of Athens is a bravura piece of storytelling by a well acclaimed master of the historical adventure novel.In the new epic historical novel by New York Times bestselling author Conn Iggulden, in ancient Greece an army of slaves gathers on the plains of Marathon . .Categorized as:
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![War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad by Christopher Logue, Homer]()
War Music: An Account of Books 1-4 and 16-19 of Homer's Iliad by Christopher Logue, Homer
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn his brilliant rendering of eight books of Homer's Iliad, Logue here retells some of the most evocative episodes of the war classic, including the death of Patroclus and Achilles's fateful return to battle, that sealed the doom of Troy...Categorized as:
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![Tyrant: Funeral Games by Christian Cameron]()
Tyrant: Funeral Games by Christian Cameron
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsSatyrus and Melitta, twin heirs to a rich kingdom on the Black Sea, were hounded into exile in FUNERAL GAMES after their mother was brutally murdered by one of their father's former comrades, Heron. Heron now rules the land that is theirs by right, but the twins are older now and battle-hardened in the wars of Alexander's Successors...Categorized as:
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![Lion of Macedon by David Gemmell]()
Lion of Macedon by David Gemmell
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsOver and again, the aged seeress Tamis scried all the possible tomorrows. In every one, dark forces threatened Greece; terrible evil was poised to reenter the world. The future held only one hope: a half-caste Spartan boy, Parmenion. So Tamis made it her mission to see that Parmenion would before the deadliest warrior in the world -- no matter what the cost...Categorized as:
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![Defiant Unto Death by David Gilman, Martin Zhouf]()
Defiant Unto Death by David Gilman, Martin Zhouf
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFRANCE: 1356. Ten years ago, the greatest army in Christendom was slaughtered at Crécy when Thomas Blackstone and his fellow archers stood their ground and rained death on the steel-clad might of French chivalry. Blackstone left that squalid field a knight. Now, Blackstone commands a war band and has carved out a small fiefdom in northern France...Categorized as:
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![Sevenfold Sword: Guardian by Jonathan Moeller]()
Sevenfold Sword: Guardian by Jonathan Moeller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe quest of the Seven Swords nears its end, and dark powers rise to seize the world. Ridmark Arban has learned the terrible secret at the heart of the Seven Swords. Now he need only escape Urd Maelwyn, the grim city ruled by the dark elven tyrant known as the Confessor. But few who enter Urd Maelwyn ever leave alive... -
![Dragontiarna: Knights by Jonathan Moeller]()
Dragontiarna: Knights by Jonathan Moeller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRidmark Arban has defeated both the mighty Frostborn and the evil of the Seven Swords, and now he only wishes to live quietly with his family. But Ridmark's oldest enemy, the Warden of Urd Morlemoch, has not forgotten him. And the Warden knows a dangerous secret. For the dragons are returning.. -
![Red-Robed Priestess by Elizabeth Cunningham]()
Red-Robed Priestess by Elizabeth Cunningham
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter a long, eventful life that has brought her through slavery to the Resurrection garden, through the controversies of the early Church to a hermit cave in southern Gaul, Maeve, the Celtic Magdalen, comes full circle. With her daughter Sarah, Maeve returns to the British Isles to seek her first-born daughter taken from her by the druids more than forty years ago...Categorized as:
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![Fragile Empire by Christopher Mitchell]()
Fragile Empire by Christopher Mitchell
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Empire has lived in peace for 16 years, but trouble is brewing behind the Grey Mountains, where the renegade nation of Rahain prepares; arming itself for a long-awaited war of vengeance.Karalyn, the 18 year old daughter of two war heroes, is trying to find a place for herself in the world. Her own powers were deemed so dangerous she spent much of her childhood in exile... -
![God of War: The Epic Story of Alexander the Great by Christian Cameron]()
God of War: The Epic Story of Alexander the Great by Christian Cameron
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsThe ultimate historical adventure novel: the life of Alexander the Great in a single, epic...Categorized as:
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![Red Branch by Morgan Llywelyn]()
Red Branch by Morgan Llywelyn
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn a land ruled by war and love and strange enchantments, Cuchulain -- torn between gentleness and violence, haunted by the croakings of a sinister raven -- fights for his honor and his homeland and discovers too late the trap that the gods have set for him in the fatal beauty of Deirdre and the brutal jealousy of King Conor... -
![Dark Prince by David Gemmell]()
Dark Prince by David Gemmell
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe chaos spirit had chosen the child Alexander to be its human host. But Parmenion, most powerful warrior of ancient Greece, had won a small victory over the darkness that sought to rule through Alexander. The boy's soul had not been destroyed by evil, but instead had merged with it -- and now Parmenion aided Alexander in the battle between light and dark that constantly raged within him...Categorized as:
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![All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten by Christopher Logue]()
All Day Permanent Red: The First Battle Scenes of Homer's Iliad Rewritten by Christopher Logue
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSetting down her topaz saucer heaped with nectarine jelly, Emptying her blood-red mouth—set in her ice-white face— Teenaged Athena jumped up and shrieked: "Kill! Kill for me! Better to die than live without killing!" Who says prayer does no good? Christopher Logue's work in progress, his Iliad, has been called "the best translation of Homer since Pope's" (The New York Review of Books)... -
![The Deer and the Cauldron: The First Book by Jin Yong]()
The Deer and the Cauldron: The First Book by Jin Yong
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn the Dragon Throne of China sits the young Manchu Emperor Kang Xi. Back in 1644, his great-uncle Dorgon broke through the Great Wall from Manchuria in the north-east and took the Imperial capital, Peking. Now twenty years later, the Manchus are quelling the last sparks of Chinese resistance, hounding down members of the underground movement known as the Triad Secret Society... -
![The Three Kingdoms, Volume 2: The Sleeping Dragon by Luo Guanzhong]()
The Three Kingdoms, Volume 2: The Sleeping Dragon by Luo Guanzhong
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis exciting new translation will appeal to modern readers who find the twists and turns of Game of Thrones so compelling.The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago...Categorized as:
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![Daughters of Bronze: A Novel of Troy by A.D. Rhine]()
Daughters of Bronze: A Novel of Troy by A.D. Rhine
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSong of great sorrow. Even greater love. Lost between the timeless lines of Homer’s epic, the women of Troy finally stand to be counted. Their story is one you’ve never encountered, and it will change the fate of Troy forever...Categorized as:
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![Sevenfold Sword: Champion by Jonathan Moeller]()
Sevenfold Sword: Champion by Jonathan Moeller
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRidmark Arban is the Shield Knight, the defender of the realm of Andomhaim. The realm is at peace after a long and terrible war, but dark powers threaten other lands. And when a mad elven wizard comes to the High King's court, Ridmark finds himself fighting not only for his own life, but for the lives of his family. For the quest of the Seven Swords has begun.. -
![The Armour of Achilles by Glyn Iliffe]()
The Armour of Achilles by Glyn Iliffe
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe siege of Troy is in its 10th year, in the third book continuing from King of Ithaca and The Gates of Troy The Greeks, with Achilles at their head, have inflicted numerous defeats on the Trojans, but Troy itself still stands. Dispirited, bitter, and frustrated by the war, Odysseus and his men think lovingly of home... -
![Hereward: End of Days by James Wilde]()
Hereward: End of Days by James Wilde
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEngland, 1071. Five years have passed since the crushing Norman victory at the Battle of Hastings. The country reels under the savage rule of the new king, the one they call 'the Bastard.' The North has been left a wasteland villages razed, innocents put to the sword, land stolen. It seems no atrocity is too great to ensure William's grip upon the crown... -
![The Children of Llyr by Evangeline Walton]()
The Children of Llyr by Evangeline Walton
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsIn stark, gaunt prose, it chronicles the years of Bran the Blessed - he who was so vast a man that no house could hold him nor ship bear his bulk - and of the tale of his beloved sister Branwen, his brother Manawyddan, and of his half-brothers Nissyen and the ghastly Evnissten... -
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Sevenfold Sword: Sovereign by Jonathan Moeller
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe quest of the Seven Swords has been a trap all along. For the dark elven tyrant known as the Sovereign will use the power of the Swords to ascend to godhood and enslave the world for all time. And only Ridmark Arban stands in his way.. -
![A Year of Ravens by Ruth Downie, E. Knight]()
A Year of Ravens by Ruth Downie, E. Knight
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBritannia: land of mist and magic clinging to the western edge of the Roman Empire. A red-haired queen named Boudica led her people in a desperate rebellion against the might of Rome, an epic struggle destined to consume heroes and cowards, young and old, Roman and Briton . . . and these are their stories. A calculating queen foresees the fires of rebellion in a king's death... -
![The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa]()
The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsGrowing from an oral tradition of ballads based on historic events in India, the Mahabharata was passed down and extended through the centuries, becoming the longest poem ever written. R. K. Narayan provides a superb rendition in an abbreviated and elegant retelling of this great epic... -
![The Adventures of Robin Hood by Joseph Walker McSpadden]()
The Adventures of Robin Hood by Joseph Walker McSpadden
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe classic story of the man who robbed from the rich to give to the poor comes alive with vibrant illustrations from celebrated artist Greg Hildebrandt. Escape to Sherwood Forest and join the jolly Fellowship of the Greenwood with these rollicking tales of the celebrated archer and gentleman thief...Categorized as:
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![Hannibal: Enemy of Rome by Ben Kane]()
Hannibal: Enemy of Rome by Ben Kane
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe first in a brilliant new series set during the Second Punic War, from the bestselling author of The Forgotten Legion Chronicles. In the First Punic War, the Roman legions defeated and humiliated Carthage, their only serious rival for power in the Mediterranean. Now a brilliant young Carthaginian general, called Hannibal, is out for revenge...Categorized as:
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![Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad by Alice Oswald, Eavan Boland]()
Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad by Alice Oswald, Eavan Boland
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsIn this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad—the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen—in favor of attending to its atmospheres: the extended similes that bring so much of the natural order into the poem and the corresponding litany of the war-dead, most of whom are little more than names but each of whom lives and dies unforgettably and unforgotten in...Categorized as:
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![The Forest of Enchantments by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Suchitra Pillai]()
The Forest of Enchantments by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Suchitra Pillai
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThe Ramayana, one of the world’s greatest epics, is also a tragic love story. In this brilliant retelling, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni places Sita at the centre of the novel: this is Sita’s version. The Forest of Enchantments is also a very human story of some of the other women in the epic, often misunderstood and relegated to the margins: Kaikeyi, Surpanakha, Mandodari...Categorized as:
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![King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales by Thomas Malory]()
King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales by Thomas Malory
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThomas Malory, knight, adventurer, and soldier, was born in the early years of the fifteenth century and died on March 14, 1471, having spent much of the last twenty years of his life in prison. It was there that he wrote most, if not all, of his works, completing the last in about 1470...Categorized as:
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![The Road to Vengeance by Judson Roberts]()
The Road to Vengeance by Judson Roberts
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHalfdan Hroriksson is on the hunt.Determined to find and fight his brother's killer, Halfdan knows he must first gain experience as a Viking warrior. He's been lucky so far. He gained passage on a ship and is quietly learning the strategies of war and conquest from the hardy crew...Categorized as:
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Outlaws of the Marsh by Shi Nai'an, Luo Guanzhong
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsChina's great classic novel Outlaws of the Marsh, written in the fourteenth century, is a fictional account of twelfth-century events during the Song Dynasty. One by one, over a hundred men and women are forced by the harsh feudal officialdom to take to the hills. They band together and defeat every attempt of the government troops to crush them...Categorized as:
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![Birth of a Warrior by Michael Ford]()
Birth of a Warrior by Michael Ford
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLysander had to leave his roots as a Helot slave far behind him, when he discovered his true identity as the descendant of a Spartan warrior. The training is ruthless and now he faces his toughest challenge. Sent to the mountains with nothing but a goatskin flask, he and two other boys must prove their ability to survive before they can return...Categorized as:
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Sorrow Hill by C.R. May
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGeatland in the first decades of the sixth century was an island of peace amidst the upheaval which marked the death throes of the Roman Empire in the West. Under the benevolent rule of King Hrethel and his sons the King’s grandchild, Beowulf, the only child of his daughter, is carefully groomed by the family in the skills and duties of the warrior elite... -
![The Incredible Story of Henry N. Brown by Anne Helene Bubenzer]()
The Incredible Story of Henry N. Brown by Anne Helene Bubenzer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHenry N. Brown came into this world on July 16, 1921. He had to wait until his second eye was sewn before he could see, but from that moment his life was never dull. Henry N. Brown is the story of the twentieth century, as witnessed by a little bear... -
![Legacy of Blood by Michael Ford]()
Legacy of Blood by Michael Ford
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter victory against the Persians, Lysander and the other young warriors from Sparta are weary from battle. But then a messenger brings news that Taras, a distant outpost of the Spartan empire, is under siege. Sparta is in danger of losing a vital trading port to a local uprising. Lysander and his barrack set sail immediately for southern Italy...Categorized as:
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![The Three Kingdoms: The Sacred Oath by Luo Guanzhong]()
The Three Kingdoms: The Sacred Oath by Luo Guanzhong
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis exciting new translation will appeal to modern readers who find the twists and turns of Game of Thrones so compelling.The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago... -
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![The Three Kingdoms, Volume 3: Welcome The Tiger by Luo Guanzhong]()
The Three Kingdoms, Volume 3: Welcome The Tiger by Luo Guanzhong
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis exciting new translation will appeal to modern readers who find the twists and turns of Game of Thrones so compelling.The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago...Categorized as:
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![A Song of War: A Novel of Troy by Kate Quinn, Christian Cameron]()
A Song of War: A Novel of Troy by Kate Quinn, Christian Cameron
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTroy: city of gold, gatekeeper of the east, haven of the god-born and the lucky, a city destined to last a thousand years. But the Fates have other plans—the Fates, and a woman named Helen. In the shadow of Troy's gates, all must be reborn in the greatest war of the ancient world: slaves and queens, heroes and cowards, seers and kings . . . and these are their stories...Categorized as:
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![Pendragon's Banner by Helen Hollick]()
Pendragon's Banner by Helen Hollick
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWho was the man ... who became the legend ... we know as KING ARTHUR? Pendragon's Banner is the second book in Helen Hollick's exciting King Arthur trilogy, covering 459-465 A.D. This is not a fairy tale or fantasy. There is no Merlin, no sword in the stone, and no Lancelot. This is the most accurate Arthurian legend ever written, based on historical evidence and meticulous research... -
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Satyayoddha Kalki: Eye of Brahma by Kevin Missal
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAbout the BookAfter a defeat at the hands of Lord Kali, Kalki Hari must journey towards the Mahendragiri mountains with his companions to finally become the avatar he is destined to be.But the road ahead is not without peril . . .Not only is he trapped by the cannibalistic armies of the Pisach, he is also embroiled in the civil war of the Vanars... -
![Horses of Fire by A.D. Rhine]()
Horses of Fire by A.D. Rhine
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe women of Troy are threads spinning on a single loom. Can they reweave the tapestry of fate? Horses of Fire isan epic retelling of the Trojan War in which Troy’s strong yet misunderstood women take center stage. Andromache is cast as the doting wife of Prince Hector, yet her Amazonian name means “battler of men...Categorized as:
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![Wounds of Honour by Anthony Riches]()
Wounds of Honour by Anthony Riches
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom an exciting new thriller writer for fans of Conn Iggulden and Simon Scarrow, this is the first book in an exhilarating trilogy that lavishly brings to life the great events and battles of the times, and will take its hero far and wide through the Roman Empire Thrilling, authentic, and action-packed, this novel introduces soldier hero Marcus Valerius: a centurion stationed on Hadrian's Wall...Categorized as:
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