 | The Young Hornblower Omnibus: Mr. Midshipman Hornblower, Lieutenant Hornblower, and, Hornblower and the Hotspur by C.S. Forester
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £1.94 Hornblower is here to stay... C.S.Forester creation is much to the point. His other novels like THE GENERAL or THE SHIP are also a MUST READ.
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 | The Reverse of the Medal by Patrick O'Brian
Buy new: £3.03 / Used from: £2.73 Probably much more erudition in it... and less "pulp" if you know what I mean.
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 | Sharpe's Eagle by Bernard Cornwell
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 It is so well known... here all started for us "landlubbers!". (started the list with Navy heroes but as an ex-infantryman guess I prefer Sharpe...).
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 | Command a King's Ship by Alexander Kent
Buy new: £2.97 / Used from: £3.90 Alexander Kent has done also his bit with Richard Bolitho...
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 | The First Nathaniel Drinkwater Omnibus: "Eye of the Fleet", "King's Cutter", "Brig of War" by Richard Woodman
Buy new: £7.69 / Used from: £2.00 Another naval hero... I guess all ships in the Navy must have got one!...try also Pope's "RAMAGE".
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 | Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow (Trojan War Trilogy): 1 by David Gemmell
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.39 Troy converted into a saga... and you can also try Napier' "ATTILA"...
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 | Command (Thomas Kydd 7) by Julian Stockwin
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.32 And "encore" another quite popular NAVY hero...
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 | Mr Midshipman Fury by G.S. Beard
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.49 And I will stop here... almost any book with a british ship in it does it.
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 | Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur (A Novel of Arthur: The Warlord Chronicles) by Bernard Cornwell
Buy new: £3.10 / Used from: £0.21 It is a "short saga" (a trilogy) but probably the best from Cornwell!
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 | The Last Kingdom (Alfred the Great 1) by Bernard Cornwell
Buy new: £4.32 / Used from: £0.96 Alfred the Great saga...
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 | Harlequin (The Grail Quest) by Bernard Cornwell
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £0.01 Longbows... I am no specialist in the Middle Ages... but THE WHITE COMPANY and SIR NIGEL are a must read...
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 | The Bloody Ground (Starbuck Chronicles) by Bernard Cornwell
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.01 Cornwell's ACW incursion... Patrick Lassan is Sharpe's son!... but not the main character...
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 | Kiwi Wars (Fancy Jack Crossman) by Garry Douglas Kilworth
Buy new: £9.35 / Used from: £9.34 Starts in the Crimea (5 books) and goes to India (2 books) and to the Maori wars (1 book)... try also his short books SOLDIER'S SON and THE DRUMMER BOY.
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 | The Guns of El Kebir (Simon Fonthill) by John Wilcox
Buy new: £17.99 / Used from: £11.31 Five very good books for the moment... victorian colonial warfare...
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 | Centurion (Roman Legion 8) by Simon Scarrow
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £2.39 The Roman legions saga... (8 books so far). Read also GATES OF FIRE if an Ancients nut... the best historical novel in years...or try WARRIOR OF ROME nº1...
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 | Young Bloods: Revolution 1 (Revolution) by Simon Scarrow
Buy new: £5.16 / Used from: £0.59 Simon Scarrow goes napoleonic... (two books so far)
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 | A Close Run Thing by Allan Mallinson
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 The light cavalry hero... (I still prefer his first book and subsequent Peninsula flashbacks...) Ten books published.
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 | Flashman at the Charge (Flashman 07) by George MacDonald Fraser
Buy new: £5.00 / Used from: £2.75 Same as all above but tongue in cheek... Hilarious but over an excellent research and historical background.
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 | Lords of the Bow (Conqueror 2) by Conn Iggulden
Buy used from: £6.00 If you love it... probably THE CRUSADES trilogy will do also... "Brethren" and the like...
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 | Dust on the Sea (The Royal Marines) by Douglas Reeman
Buy new: £17.16 / Used from: £0.01 The Royal Marines is a family saga... not the same character in every book!. Also author of more modern naval novels, "Torpedo Run" etc.
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 | Bonaparte's Invaders (Alain Lausard Adventure) by Richard Howard
Buy new: £2.02 / Used from: £0.01 The French Dragoon novels... (napoleonic)... discontinued or suspended after EYLAU.
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 | The General's Envoy (Caspasian Series) by Anthony Conway
Buy used from: £12.59 Only four titles but a lot of fun!... probably James Bond father... also in suspended animation.
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 | Rutland's Guns by Roger Carpenter
Buy new: £7.05 / Used from: £7.69 Artillery or gunner's hero... only two books thought... I think the next book of the saga will be an ACW novel.
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 | Rules of War (Jack Steel 2) by Iain Gale
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £6.00 Marlburian warfare... and only two books... give it a chance it has potential.
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 | The Mammoth Book of Sword and Honor
Buy used from: £2.98 P.C.Wren , Haggard, Buchan, Wallace, Conan-Doyle, Fenimore Cooper, Oliver Curwood, John Newsom, Mason, Salgari, Verne, DUMAS (father) and even Ian Fleming are the fathers of the genre.
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