 | Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.66 Pressfield's epic, I just couldn't put it down! One fantastic read...a book about the nature of courage.
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 | The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell
Buy new: £5.54 / Used from: £0.01 The Warlord Chronicles are Cornwall's best work, also read Enemy of God and Excalibur. Somebody make the movies, please!
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 | Pompeii by Robert Harris
Buy new: £5.44 / Used from: £0.01 A great thriller, ending with a really big bang! Harris always comes up with the goods...read anything by him.
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 | King Hereafter by Dorothy Dunnett
Buy used from: £3.53 A great re-telling of Macbeth, slow in the middle, but worth the effort. Better than the Bard...well maybe.
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 | Eagle in the Snow by Wallace Breem
Buy used from: £6.55 A slow builder, but a fantastic ending as the Germanic hordes descend. This would make a great movie...oh it already did!
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 | Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton
Buy new: £2.48 / Used from: £0.01 Not usually a Crichton fan, but this re-telling of the Beowulf saga has a great central idea.
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 | The Last English King by Julian Rathbone
Buy new: £0.85 / Used from: £0.01 Rathbone's story of a Huscarl returning to England after defeat at Hastings and exile is clever, whitty and engrossing.
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 | The Afghan Campaign by Steven Pressfield
Buy used from: £9.98 Pressfield back on form...not even Alexander could win in Afghanistan, here's why!
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 | Knight in Anarchy by George Shipway
Buy used from: £19.89 A little gem, an exciting adventure as a young Norman Knight attempts to retain his lands throughout a civil war.
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| Men Went to Cattraeth by John James
Buy used from: £8.20 The Dark ages brought to life, lovely atmosphere and feel to a bard's tale of a heroic battle agisnt the Saxon invaders.
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