Historical Fiction
Eric Flint's acclaimed 1634: The Galileo Affair was a national bestseller from one of the most talked-about voices in his field. Now, in this extraordinary new alternate history, Flint begins a dramatic saga of the North American continent at a dire turning point, forging its identity and its future in the face of revolt from within, and attack from without.
In the War of 1812, U.S. troops are battling the British on the Canadian border, even as a fierce fight is being waged against the Creek followers of the Indian leader Tecumseh and his brother, known as The Prophet. In Europe, Napoleon Bonaparte's war has become a losing proposition, and the British are only months away from unleashing a frightening assault on Washington itself. Fateful choices are being made in the corridors of power and on the American frontier. As Andrew Jackson, backed by Cherokee warriors, leads a fierce attack on the Creek tribes, his young republic will soon need every citizen soldier it can find.
What if—at this critical moment—bonds were forged between men of different races and tribes What if the Cherokee clans were able to muster an integrated front, and the U.S. government faced a united Indian nation bolstered by escaping slaves, freed men of color, and even influential white allies
Through the remarkable adventures of men who were really there—men of mixed race, mixed emotions, and a singular purpose—The Rivers of War carries us in this new direction, brilliantly transforming an extraordinary chapter of American history. http://www.webscription.net/p-588-1812-the-rivers-of-war.aspx
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Frederick "Walter" Kelley, a master carpenter, moved his family to a small emerging town in South Dakota in 1909. The small town atmosphere allowed the Kelley family to become respected members of the community. The citizens in this closely-knit community were like extended family and lived blissfully until two horrible events changed their lives forever. http://www.blueunicornpublishing.com/
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David Slater, a conscript in the 1920s Army of the Confederacy, faces a dilemma. When he and his regiment were shipped to Germany to help stage a coup there, his Limey fellow-soldier Brian was acting strangely. David now has the choice of reporting his best friend to his commanding officers, or keeping quiet and just doing his job: preparing for the arrival of Bismarck, the giant Zeppelin flying Hitler and his Nazi cohorts to meet their new allies, the Confederates.
Beneath Gray Skies follows the adventures of David and those around him in a past that never happened-where the Civil War never took place, and the Confederacy survived as a pariah slave-holding nation into the 20th century. Confederates, Unionists, British and Germans plot and counterplot in a tightly woven tale of espionage, treachery and romance. http://beneathgrayski.es/
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Free, full-length Norse Saga in modern English. Based on the earliest-known history of Norway. Thoroughly researched (the author is half Norwegian and has lived in the places here described), and with a fast moving, violent and unpredictable plot, Berserk Revenge is the best Viking-themed story written since 1399 A.D. http://www.scribd.com/doc/36021424/Berserk-Revenge-A-Norse-Saga
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Two anti-war students move to Oceanside, California during the Vietnam War to help organize anti-war Marines but their experiences with the soldiers change them more. http://www.scribd.com/doc/15663662/Microsoft-Word-Bring-the-War-Homeebook
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Maia and her step-brother Cilo were raised in an opulent villa in the Seine Valley, by their vile step-mother. Cilo enlisted in the army in Britannia at fifteen.
Lucius, Luc, is commander of an auxiliary cavalry unit of Legio XX, Valeria Victrix. The son of a Caledonian mercenary who joined Rome, he and his four brothers are renowned soldiers of great ability and bravery. At 25 he has served ten years, is looking at another fifteen, and has had enough of killing. Exhausted and battle fatigued after the brutal AD77 Cambrian campaign, he has been weighing up his chances of survival as a deserter.
When Maia is married off to her stepbrother, she is once again abandoned when he returns to Britannia. Seizing her chance to escape, she joins an exclusive group of travelling priestesses on their way to Britannia. But they can only take her some of the way, and she finds herself moving through a complex web of lies and deceptions, where everyone she meets has a separate agenda.
If she can only trust Lucius, he can take her to her husband. Everything she knows about the world will change, if she can survive the journey. http://letitiacoynebritannia.weebly.com/
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By AD83 the Romans in Caledonia held a line of glen-blocking forts, (now known as the Gask Ridge forts, from Glasgow to Perth) and the three active legions, XXth, IXth and IInd, were split along this defensive line. Calgacus was one of a number of first century Pictish barons; part of a landed class in northern Celt society with access to slaves, money, men and arms. He fixed on the plan to unify the Caledonian Celtic tribes against Rome, beginning with the tribes of the Forth-Clyde area.
After a crushing defeat at a fort along the Roman line, Calgacus tried the following year to bring in all the Pictish tribes, and rallied an army of perhaps sixty thousand men (and women) for the Battle of Mons Graupius. Once Calgacus' lover, Eirbrin has been sent north to her family lands on the Gleann Mor above Inbhir Nis. Fanatical dedication to the fight to free Caledonia from Rome has been her only way to deal with the deep and disabling shames of her past.
When she meets Antony she believes she has found a mystic, a man of power who can help her to overcome the demons of guilt and shame. He is a spy, a Natione - native Britons conscripted to the Roman auxiliary army - used extensively by Agricola in the Caledonian wars, where the Celt's guerrilla tactics and harsh terrain made success near to impossible.
Everything about him should warn Brin of his deception, but her longing to atone, her need to be free of shame, and her growing desire for him allow her to deny or justify any doubts that come. To him, she should be no more than an enemy; and with her ties to the leader of the Picts, a formidable source of information. But as they move through the Caledonian midlands toward the gathering battle, her beauty and courage, her innocence and the unfaltering faith she places in him draw him into an impossible situation.
Trapped between an irresistible love and an immovable duty, he must find a way to untangle his web of lies, or return to a life of service, to live or die alone. http://sites.google.com/site/letitiacoynecaledonia/
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(Music when site is loaded.) (Romance) "Nay!" she said, instantly halting his disrobement. His eyes met hers. Ciara swallowed hard. "That is, I prefer to avoid the issue as long as possible." http://www.angelfire.com/me2/celia/roses.html
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When the cannon roared to life, spectators sent up a round of cheers. Checkered cloths and baskets filled with fried chicken and fine pastries lay spread across open grass. Children romped. As champagne corks popped, women shielded delicate skin with gaily-colored parasols. Eager to witness the deciding battle, congressmen had brought their families for a picnic. The first men in blue started falling, and mouths gaped at a totally unexpected sight--blood. http://chien-noir.com/ph/ph_excerpt.html
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1919 - the Great War is over. But shell-shocked Harry Oliver, MC carries it with him wherever he goes... This novel, set in the chalk downland of southern England in the immediate aftermath of the war, explores themes of courage, the physical and psychological wounds of war, healing, love and redemption. Filled with period detail, an evocative sense of time and place, and rising suspense, this is more than a love story - it is a work of deeply compassionate insight and feeling. http://www.alisonjames.net/novel_buttercross/index.html
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Set in the 1860's, this story follows the misfortunes of Keefer and Collin McNamara, a father and son as they immigrate to America. With a great plan to open a pub and their life savings, they take the gamble and move to Boston, where hopes of glory build up the two men who have seen nothing but tragedy in the last fifteen years. Yet, through a terrible mistake the two grow apart. Only to reunite 8 years later, through murder and madness. Added 10/21/10. http://www.lulu.com/product/file-download/the-celtic-eye/13011079
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