THE TERROR OF CONSTANTINOPLE
The Conquest of Constantinople
2005
NON-FICTIONThe Fourth Crusade (1202-1204) comprised French knights and Venetian sailors; they set out to capture the Holy Land but ended up sacking Constantinople, the Byzantine capital. Robert of Clari, an obsc...
From Mycenae to Constantinople
1992
NON-FICTIONTomlinson presents studies of selected ancient cities, ranging from the earliest development of urban architecture in Europe to the imperial cities of Rome and Constantinople. It gives an account of t...
Gates of Fire
1998
FICTIONA vivid fictional account of the 300 Spartans who held the pass at Thermopylae. Widely regarded as the finest military historical novel ever written.
Deep River
2019
FICTIONThree Finnish siblings head for the logging fields of nineteenth-century America in the New York Times–bestselling author's "commanding historical epic" ( Washington Post). Born into a farm family, th...
The Civil War
2010
FICTIONThis volume charts the final two years of the Civil War as it occurred in the eastern United States. Many of the war's most pivotal battles were fought during this time, including the Battle of Gettys...
The Romantic
2022
FICTIONA new "whole life" novel from William Boyd, the author of Any Human Heart. Set in the 19th century, the novel follows the roller-coaster fortunes of a man as he tries to negotiate the random stages, a...
The Far Side of the World (Vol. Book 10) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels)
1992
FICTIONCaptain Jack Aubrey, accompanied by ship's surgeon and intelligence operative, Stephen Maturin, sails for Cape Horn, assigned to intercept an American frigate that is disrupting the British whaling tr...
The Mystery of Yamashita's Map
2007
FICTIONFollow Professor Okada and his companions as they engage in a madcap dangerous race to find Yamashita's gold - pursued by the ruthless and cruel gangland boss Tanaka. However, Tanaka is not the only o...
The Idiot
1983
FICTIONAfter fifteen years of treatment for epilepsy in a Swiss institution, Prince Mishkin returns to St. Petersburg to find a jaded mid-19th century social world. At first the kindly, almost childlike prin...
The Age of Innocence
1992
FICTIONA novel of thwarted love set against the backdrop of New York City society of the 1870s.
The Fort LP
2010
FICTIONWhile the major fighting of the Revolutionary War moves to the South in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops-of-war, sails to the fogb...
War Lord
2020
FICTIONNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “I gulped it right down. Excellent, as always. . . . Cornwell brings battles to life like no one else.” –George R.R. Martin, Author of Game of Thrones The final installment i...
Redcoat
2003
FICTIONIt is autumn 1777, and the cradle of liberty, Philadelphia, has fallen to the British. Yet the true battle has only just begun. On both sides, loyalties are tested and families torn asunder. The young...
War of the Wolf
2018
FICTIONBernard Cornwell’s epic story of the making of England continues in this eleventh installment in the bestselling Saxon Tales series—"like Game of Thrones, but real" (The Observer)—the basis of the hit...
Sword Song
2008
FICTIONThe year is 885, and England is at peace, divided between the Danish kingdom to the north and the Saxon kingdom of Wessex in the south. Uhtred, the dispossessed son of a Northumbrian lord—warrior by i...
The Fort
2011
FICTIONWhile the major fighting of the Revolutionary War moves to the South in the summer of 1779, a British force of fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry, backed by three sloops-of-war, sails to the fogb...
The Pale Horseman
2005
FICTIONEnter the historical world of THE PALE HORSEMAN, a story of divided loyalties and desperate heroism, with a wonderful range of characters desperately striving to survive as the battle sweeps over them...
Enemy of God
2007
FICTIONFrom the No. 1 bestselling author of WAR LORD comes an epic retelling of the Arthurian legend, from the bestselling Last Kingdom series Uniting the restive British kingdoms behind him, Arthur believes...
Sharpe's Command
2024
FICTIONNew York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell returns to the early years of the nineteenth century, capturing the bravery, battles, and bloodshed of Britain's peninsular wars with this epic tale ...
The Last Kingdom
2004
FICTIONThe first book in a brand new series, The Last Kingdom is set in England during the reign of King Alfred.Uhtred is an English boy, born into the aristocracy of ninth-century Northumbria. Orphaned at t...