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Waterloo - Andrew Roberts
June 18, 1815, was one of the most momentous days in world history, marking the end of twenty-two years of French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. On the bloody battlefield of Wa... -
Traitors Gate - Anne Perry
From Library JournalVictorian socialites Thomas and Charlotte Pitt investigate the murders of two London aristocrats in this 15th installment in Perry's popular historical mystery ... -
To Lie with Lions - Dorothy Dunnett
The sixth volume in the popular The House of Niccolo series, this vivid novel of the 15th century centers on Nicholas vander Poele who, in 1471, is acclaimed by all the great court... -
Timelike infinity - Stephen Baxter
EDITORIAL REVIEW: 2000 years in the future, the solar system has fallen under the domination of an alien species, the Quax. But into this world appears a spaceship launched over 15... -
The White War_ Life and Death o - Mark Thompson
EDITORIAL REVIEW: In May 1915, Italy declared war on the Habsburg Empire. Nearly 750,000 Italian troops were killed in savage, hopeless fighting on the stony hills north of Trieste... -
The Wailing Wind - Tony Hillerman
Amazon.com ReviewA lost gold mine, a corpse in an abandoned pickup truck, and an eerie wailing heard on Halloween are among the delicious plot elements Tony Hillerman cooks up in h... -
The Street Philosopher - Matthew Plampin
SUMMARY: There was another war, some 150 years ago, which was unpopular at home ā the death rate shocking, the military strategy confused ā and the first on which the media had a m... -
The Seal Wife - Kathryn Harrison
Stunning, hypnotic, spare, The Seal Wife is the masterly new novel by Kathryn Harrison, "a writer of extraordinary gifts" (Tobias Wolff). Set in Alaska in 1915, it tells the sto... -
The Lady and the Unicorn - Tracy Chevalier
Amazon.com ReviewIf you think you wouldn't raise your skirts for a rakish legend about the purifying powers of a unicorn's horn, then maybe you aren't a 15th-century serving girl u... -
The Hundred Days - Patrick O'Brian
SUMMARY: The year is 1815, and Europe's most unpopular (not to mention tiniest) empire-builder has escaped from Elba. In The Hundred Days, it's up to Jack Aubrey--and surgeon-cum-s...