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Sharpe’s Gold is the ninth installment of the Sharpe Series by Bernard Cornwell which takes place during the Peninsular War and one year after the Battle of Talavera . Captain Richard Sharpe is with General Wellington’s army in Portugal where the British are in dyer need of money, food and supplies. Sharpe’s mission is to [...]
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The First Mountain Man Series by William W. Johnstone is the life and adventures of Preacher. Preacher heads to the Big Lonesome (Rocky Mountain Region ) with the first fur traders in the early 1800s. Preacher learns to live off the land and with Indians and makes some friends and enemies along the way. Books [...]
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The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is a historical fiction classic. I read this book in high school for fun, not as required reading. Back in high school, I read anything and everything around the Civil War. I thoroughly enjoyed The Red Badge of Courage when a lot of my friends absolutely hated [...]
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All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque was the first World War I book that I read. Paul Baumer is a German soldier on the Western Front during the trench warfare stalemate. Paul deals with combat and losing friends to both death and injury. Like many of these war books, it is [...]
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The Fallon Pride by Reagan O’Neal (Robert Jordan better known for writing The Wheel of Time fantasy novels) is a book set around 1800 and includes the War of 1812. I enjoy how snippets of historical fact are smattered throughout this book. I especially love the portions of this book talking about how many of [...]
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Traveller was a very entertaining book told from Robert E. Lee’s horse, Traveller ’s perspective. Traveller speaks to J.E.B. Stuart and Stonewall Jackson’s horses during the book. The thing that is really crazy about this one is that I was reading this book back when I was taking a summer school course in college (US [...]
