Historical Non-Fiction?

Eques · Post by **Eques** » Sat May 02, 2009 4:30 pm

Yes Persian Fire is excellent.

Keith · Post by **Keith** » Sat May 02, 2009 11:45 pm

I'm reading
Warrior of Rome "Fire inthe East" by Harry Sidebottom
Not bad so far

zellak · Post by **zellak** » Sun May 03, 2009 10:20 pm

If you like Vikings ?

Then look out for "The Whale Road" by Robert Low, its a bit like Bernard Cornwall's Alfred the Great stories.

................very good.

DaiSho · Post by **DaiSho** » Mon May 04, 2009 2:52 am

dave_r wrote:Well, I have just ordered Eagles in the Snow - £8.95 from Amazon. It had best be good or I will claim one free pint

What's the point in a pint of warm beer anyway?

Ian

azrael86 · Post by **azrael86** » Mon May 04, 2009 4:10 pm

Having found it at salute I recently finished Muntaner's chronicle of the Catalan Company (translated I hasten to add).

Can be found here as well
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Catalan-Expedit ... 201&sr=8-2

rbodleyscott · Post by **rbodleyscott** » Mon May 04, 2009 5:46 pm

DaiSho wrote:
dave_r wrote:Well, I have just ordered Eagles in the Snow - £8.95 from Amazon. It had best be good or I will claim one free pint
What's the point in a pint of warm beer anyway?

Ian

What is the point of cold tasteless beer?

DaiSho · Post by **DaiSho** » Tue May 05, 2009 6:10 am

rbodleyscott wrote:
DaiSho wrote:
dave_r wrote:Well, I have just ordered Eagles in the Snow - £8.95 from Amazon. It had best be good or I will claim one free pint
What's the point in a pint of warm beer anyway?

Ian
What is the point of cold tasteless beer?

None, but fortunately Australian beer isn't tasteless. It is cold though.

Ian

Switzer · Post by **Switzer** » Thu May 07, 2009 8:24 pm

Excellent book on the evolution of the greek and roman infantry

Also ross cowans 2 new ospreys on the roman legionaries - v good

Fall of rome by peter heather - superb

dave_r · Post by **dave_r** » Thu May 07, 2009 9:03 pm

Well, I have just ordered Eagles in the Snow - £8.95 from Amazon. It had best be good or I will claim one free pint Shocked

I want to claim my pint...

Whilst probably being a reasonable tale of how Romans acted and the plight of the empire as it reached it's end, as a book, it wasn't up to much. Didn't care for the characters and the ending was pants.

philqw78 · Post by **philqw78** » Fri May 08, 2009 6:23 am

dave_r wrote:
dave_r wrote:Well, I have just ordered Eagles in the Snow - £8.95 from Amazon. It had best be good or I will claim one free pint Shocked
I want to claim my pint...

Whilst probably being a reasonable tale of how Romans acted and the plight of the empire as it reached it's end, as a book, it wasn't up to much. Didn't care for the characters and the ending was pants.

Historical non-fiction. Shouldn't the ending have been obvious Dave?

Eques · Post by **Eques** » Sun May 10, 2009 3:26 pm

I'm reading
Warrior of Rome "Fire inthe East" by Harry Sidebottom
Not bad so far

Bought that for a train journey yesterday. Read the first couple of chapters and found them a bit underwhelming to be honest, particularly coming from an Oxford Doc.

weavil · Post by **weavil** » Wed May 13, 2009 11:11 am

The Boudicca series by Manda Scott is very good. Not hugely military based but great characters and imaging of what it may have been like.

You will probably never want to play romans again though

dave_r · Post by **dave_r** » Wed May 13, 2009 11:43 am

Historical non-fiction. Shouldn't the ending have been obvious Dave?

They all died except the commander who couldn't remember what happened, but miracurously survived because he got lost under the bodies? Obviously the Romans were going to lose

The Boudicca series by Manda Scott is very good. Not hugely military based but great characters and imaging of what it may have been like.

Yeah read some of them and I would second this choice. Good storyline at least. There was a large whiff of Lavender throughout though.

Historical Non-Fiction?

Cross thread link to the eureka one...

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