If you like fictionalized history, be sure to try Colleen McCullough's Masters of Rome series. Starting with the "First Man of Rome" about Gaius Marius (Uncle to Julius Cesar). Fascinating stuff.
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sgt Sorge wrote: > > > > As a student studying military history, this is fascinating!. I am going > > to keep my eye on this and hopefully be able to use it in an essay or > > term paper. > > > > I'm a big fan of fictionalized history and have been reading Bernard > Cornwell's Saxon series which is awesome if you want to understand 9th > century english-viking life, culture, and combat (which WAS their > culture). > > I tried it out after reading his Agincourt about the titular (he he) > battle which was also fantastic. Now I'm going for Sword Song about > the Battle of London. > > Other greats I've read are the Horatio Hornblower series about the > British 19th century Navy, Fields of Fire ('nam) and The Emperor's > General (wwii) by (Senator) James Webb, and Behind The Lines by WEB > Griffin about the father of the Special Forces > http://www.webgriffin.com/books_BehindTheLines.html > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:307395 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
