“Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War”, by Karl Marlantes
“To The Last Man: A Novel of World War I”, and “The Frozen Hours: A Novel of the Korean War”, both by Jeff Shaara.
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Any of Erik Larson’s books fit the bill (and are excellent). Devil in the White City, In the Garden of Beasts, The Splendid and the Vile…
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Shogun by James Clavell. Amazing historical fiction of Feudal Japan and many of the characters are based on real people
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George Macdonald Fraser always did his homework (and tells you about it in the postscript) and the Flashman books are a hoot, provided you’re ok with your adventure being somewhat subverted and your protagonist a caddish anti-hero (verging on likeable villain, really).
Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe books contain a good deal of adventure and a good deal of history over the series as a whole, but it’s probably fair to say the books with more adventure are by and large the ones with less history. Maybe the ones set in India, early in his career, square that circle best?
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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob deZoet was a pretty fascinating peek into Dutch-Japanese relations around 1800
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Creation gore vidal
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The Sot-Weed Factor
The Seven Dream Series
The Baroque Cycle
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Most anything by Bernard Cornwell… The Saxon Tales or the Sharpe books.
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The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett is fun reading.
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Augustus by John Williams is a masterpiece
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Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Bruce by Albert Payson Terhune
We die alone by David Howarth
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński
King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett
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Anything by Rosemary Sutcliffe. Especially Rider On A White Horse!
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The Eight by Katherine Neville
Hood, Scarlet, and Tuck by Stephen R. Lawson.
“Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War”, by Karl Marlantes
“To The Last Man: A Novel of World War I”, and “The Frozen Hours: A Novel of the Korean War”, both by Jeff Shaara.
Any of Erik Larson’s books fit the bill (and are excellent). Devil in the White City, In the Garden of Beasts, The Splendid and the Vile…
Shogun by James Clavell. Amazing historical fiction of Feudal Japan and many of the characters are based on real people
George Macdonald Fraser always did his homework (and tells you about it in the postscript) and the Flashman books are a hoot, provided you’re ok with your adventure being somewhat subverted and your protagonist a caddish anti-hero (verging on likeable villain, really).
Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe books contain a good deal of adventure and a good deal of history over the series as a whole, but it’s probably fair to say the books with more adventure are by and large the ones with less history. Maybe the ones set in India, early in his career, square that circle best?
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob deZoet was a pretty fascinating peek into Dutch-Japanese relations around 1800
Creation gore vidal
The Sot-Weed Factor
The Seven Dream Series
The Baroque Cycle
Most anything by Bernard Cornwell… The Saxon Tales or the Sharpe books.
The Century Trilogy by Ken Follett is fun reading.
Augustus by John Williams is a masterpiece
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Bruce by Albert Payson Terhune
We die alone by David Howarth
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosiński
King of the Wind by Marguerite Henry
The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett
Anything by Rosemary Sutcliffe. Especially Rider On A White Horse!