Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070
9 best books like Britain After Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070 (Robin Fleming): Toil & Trouble, Me, To Be Taught, If Fortunate, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Swords around a Throne: Napoleon's Grande Armee, Travel Light, Early Medieval Europe, 300-1000, Second Edition (History of Europe, One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa, Our Game
| Author | Augusten Burroughs |
| ISBN | 1250019958 |
From the number one New York Times bestselling author comes another stunning memoir that is tender, touching...and just a little spooky.
"Here’s a partial list of things I don’t believe in: God. The Devil. Heaven. Hell. Bigfoot. Ancient Aliens. Past lives. Life after death. Vampires....
| Author | Elton John |
| ISBN | 1250147603 |
In his first and only official autobiography, music icon Elton John reveals the truth about his extraordinary life, which is also the subject of the film Rocketman. The result is Me - the joyously funny, honest and moving story of the most enduringly successful singer/songwriter of all time.
Christened...
To Be Taught, If Fortunate
| Author | Becky Chambers |
| ISBN | 0062936018 |
In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the solar system instead transform themselves.
Ariadne is one such explorer. As an astronaut on an extrasolar research vessel,...
One night a group of monks from Durham cathedral seized Bede's remains and took them back to Durham for reburial there, making Bede one of those people who have ended up travelling further in death than they ever did while alive.
The give away fact about this book is it's title. What Bede wants...
| Author | John R. Elting |
| ISBN | 0306807572 |
This authoritative, comprehensive, and enthralling book describes and analyzes Napoleon's most powerful weapon—the Grande Armée which at its peak numbered over a million soldiers. Elting examines every facet of this incredibly complex human machine: its organization, command system, logistics,...
| Author | Naomi Mitchison |
| ISBN | 1931520143 |
Ever wanted a Tolkeinesque saga with a female lead? Look no further this is it, and from someone close to Tolkein who proof read Lord of the Rings before it was published. This was published in 1952, before Lord of the Rings in 1954.
This really ought to stand alongside The Hobbit and Harry Potter and...
Early Medieval Europe, 300-1000, Second Edition (History of Europe
| Author | Roger Collins |
| ISBN | 0312218869 |
Good general survey of a difficult and wide ranging topic. The remit included the Fall if Roman Empire, Barbarian invasions, the beginnings of the Arab Islamic Empire, Western European Kong’s and empowers, the Vikings and the speed of Christianity. For a 700 year period. As the author points out...
One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa
| Author | John F. Wukovits |
| ISBN | 0451221389 |
The riveting true account of the first American offensive in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
In November 1943, the men of the 2d Marine Division were instructed to clear out any token Japanese resistance on the Pacific island of Betio and return to their waiting ships. But when the Marines...
| Author | John le Carré |
| ISBN | 0340640278 |
I can't believe that there are people on GR who found this book boring. What is to bore with Le Carré's beautiful writing? What is to bore with a book that teaches so much about the forgotten people, the Ingush, and the intrigues and treachery of Russian politics? What is to bore with the master of the spy...
