Knights of the Hawk

9 best books like Knights of the Hawk (James Aitcheson): Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone, October: The Story of the Russian Revolution, Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe, The Winter Road, Castillon, Sons of Thunder, The Falcon of Sparta, Lord Edward's Archer, The Swarm

Into Africa: The Epic Adventures of Stanley & Livingstone

Author	Martin Dugard
ISBN	0767910745

What really happened to Dr. David Livingstone? The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Survivor: The Ultimate Game investigates in this thrilling account.

With the utterance of a single line--"Doctor Livingstone, I presume?"--a remote meeting in the heart of Africa was transformed...

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution

Author	China Miéville
ISBN	1784782777

In February 1917, in the midst of bloody war, Russia was still an autocratic monarchy: nine months later, it became the first socialist state in world history. How did this unimaginable transformation take place? How was a ravaged and backward country, swept up in a desperately unpopular war, rocked...

Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe

Author

Laurence Bergreen

The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage

“Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York...

The Winter Road

Author	Adrian Selby
ISBN	0316465887

A gritty and epic adventure to appeal to fans of Mark Lawrence, Andrzej Sapkowski and Joe Abercrombie – The Winter Road is a fantasy novel which remembers that battles leave all kinds of scars.

The greatest empire of them all began with a road.

The Circle – a thousand miles of perilous...

Castillon

Author

Christian Cameron

1450s France. A young Englishman, Tom Swan, is kneeling in the dirt, waiting to be killed by the French who've taken him captive.

He's not a professional soldier. He's really a merchant and a scholar looking for remnants of Ancient Greece and Rome - temples, graves, pottery, fabulous animals,...

Sons of Thunder

Author	Giles Kristian
ISBN	0593061640

The sequel to Giles Kristian's acclaimed historical debut, Raven: Blood Eye, this brutal, bloody and unputdownable novel continues the story of the Viking Raven and his warrior brotherhood.

Never betray a Fellowship and expect to get away with your life...

Raven and his Wolfpack...

The Falcon of Sparta

Author

Conn Iggulden

In the Ancient World, one army was feared above all others. This is their story.When Cyrus, brother to the Great King of Persia, attempts to overthrow his reckless sibling, he employs a Greek mercenary army of 10,000 soldiers. When this army becomes stranded as a result of the unexpected death of Cyrus,...

Lord Edward's Archer

Author	Griff Hosker
ISBN	1911445669

13th Century, Wales and England.

To young Gruffyd, life has been unkind. Eking out a meagre living with his father, he has learned very quickly how to look after himself in the hostile borderlands. His father, an archer, has taught him well and at seventeen Gruffyd is a keen and able bowman. Young,...

The Swarm

Author	Orson Scott Card
ISBN	0765375621

Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston return to their Ender's Game prequel series with this first volume of an all-new trilogy about the Second Formic War in The Swarm.

The first invasion of Earth was beaten back by a coalition of corporate and international military forces, and the Chinese army....