Well it isn't quite historical, more like a fantasy with a thinly disguised Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire setting, but I've quite enjoyed Harry Turtledove's Videssos cycle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videssos
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Sandra Clark <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:307442 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
