Culloden
9 best books like Culloden (John Prebble): A Bloody Field by Shrewsbury, Lord John and the Private Matter, Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing, Gettysburg, Finn's Fate, The Norseman, Viking Warrior, The Redemption of Alexander Seaton, Lafayette
| Author | Edith Pargeter |
| ISBN | 0747233667 |
From Edith Pargeter, who also wrote as Ellis Peters, A BLOODY FIELD BY SHREWSBURY is a vivid medieval tale of Henry IV's kingdom in crisis. 'Chivalry, treachery, conflict of loyalties... The clash of wills is as stirring as the clash of steel' Observer
It is 1399. Henry Bolingbroke, unjustly...
Lord John and the Private Matter
| Author | Diana Gabaldon |
| ISBN | 0770429459 |
In her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels, Diana Gabaldon introduced millions of readers to a dazzling world of history and adventure — a world of vibrant settings and utterly unforgettable characters. Now one of these characters, Major Lord John Grey, opens the door to his own part...
Motherland: A Memoir of Love, Loathing, and Longing
"I'm reading this book right now and loving it!"--Cheryl Strayed, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wild
How can a mother and daughter who love (but don't always like) each other coexist without driving each other crazy?
"A wry and moving meditation on aging and the different...
| Author | Newt Gingrich |
| ISBN | 0312987250 |
The Battle of Gettysburg has become the great "what if" of American history. Gettysburg unfolds an alternate path and creates for General Robert E. Lee the victory he might have won. Full of dramatic battle scenes, military strategy, and captivating period details, Gettysburg stands as a remarkable...
This is the story of an epic journey in the tenth century which takes three young men from Lapland to Denmark where they become crew members on "Ulf", a Viking ship. They cross the North sea to plunder Anglo Saxon England. The book is linked to authentic historical events and culminates in a disaster for...
| Author | Jason Born |
| ISBN | 1468187171 |
The Norseman is the first volume of the vividly-detailed historical chronicles of Halldorr, an orphan whose entire desire was to lay beside both a warm hearth and a plump wife, but fate had another thread to spin. Instead, he found himself exiled, resigned to a life of raiding, killing for plunder and...
| Author | Judson Roberts |
| ISBN | 0060799994 |
He's the son of a chieftain and a princess--yet Halfdan was born a slave. Now he is becoming a man and it is time for him to meet his destiny. Though raised a slave who could only dream of freedom, young Halfdan's fate may be about to change. If freed, he may train as a Viking warrior, and come to know the glories...
The Redemption of Alexander Seaton
| Author | Shona MacLean |
| ISBN | 1847245056 |
This was a solid and enjoyable historical mystery set in Scotland in 1626. The main hero, Alexander Seaton, is a disgraced would-be minister of the Church of Scotland who is obsessed with guilt and tormented by his lack of faith. He's certainly a compelling character and I grew to like him more and more...
| Author | Harlow Giles Unger |
| ISBN | 0471468851 |
Acclaim for Lafayette
"I found Mr. Unger's book exceptionally well done. It's an admirable account of the marquis's two revolutions-one might even say his two lives-the French and the American. It also captures the private Lafayette and his remarkable wife, Adrienne, in often moving detail."...
