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Category: Historical Fiction

December 6, 2012

‘The Ionian Mission’, P. O’Brian

I today had the opportunity to finish the first of Patrick O’Brian’s novels that I’ve tried to read. This happened to be ‘The Ionian…

November 9, 2012

‘The Fort’, B. Cornwell

With the good excuse of not being a Massachusetts/Maine/Boston person, the contact previous to this book that I had had with Paul Revere had…

October 15, 2012

Review: Kukai the Universal, Ryotaro Shiba

Kūkai was born in 774 in Sanuki Province, which faced the central provinces with the easternmost part of the Seto Inland Sea in between….

October 14, 2012

‘Throne of Blood’

I had the pleasure, well, theoretical pleasure since I took it up only because I thought it would go well with the present recovery…

April 1, 2012

‘Roma’, S. Saylor

‘Roma’ was a truly brilliant book in my opinion — designed as a history book more than a historical novel (with an explanation referring…

November 13, 2011

‘With Fire and Sword’, H. Sienkiewicz

Henryk Sienkiewicz’s books are a wonder to read. Having recently concluded (once again) his ‘With Fire and Sword’, I can reaffirm that there are…

September 20, 2010

H. Sienkiewicz, ‘Trylogia’

Just finished the masterpiece of Henryk Sienkiewicz, the Trylogia (composed of three books, ‘With Fire and Sword’, ‘The Deluge’, and ‘Fire in the Steppe, or Pan Wolodyjowski’), a…

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