Historical fiction

[Keizer]

I will definitely have to pic through some of these recs from Danka and Kadarn in the future.

To answer your question about Cornwell Kadarn, I have read (I think) all of his books sans most of the Sharpe books. I just didn't enjoy those as much. Though I did learn a few things about infantry tactics from that period that I did not know. They are must reads if you are ever going to write about early breach loading gun warfare. Also, I did not know that British officers bought their commissions during that period.

I didn't mention it here, but like you I really enjoyed the Authorian series he wrote. That one is much more fantasy than historical.

My favorite series is the the Saxon stories. In both of the above mentioned series you get a great feel for shield-wall line warfare.

[Kadarn]

I will definitely have to pic through some of these recs from Danka and Kadarn in the future.



I didn't mention it here, but like you I really enjoyed the Authorian series he wrote. That one is much more fantasy than historical.

My favorite series is the the Saxon stories. In both of the above mentioned series you get a great feel for shield-wall line warfare.

Yeah, it makes you feel for the poor bastards in leather instead of mail.

[Danka]

Have you guys read Amin Maalouf's The Crusades Through Arab Eyes and Evan S. Conell's Deus Lo Volt, both writers consolidated medieval writings about crusades. And it is very good to read them both, if you are interested in that part of history.

[Kalystia]

Antonia Fraser's pretty good, especially her biography of Marie Antoinette. Phillipa Gregory is also a decent writer, although The Other Boleyn Girl is highly fictionalised.