18 Top historical books like Waterloo (Sharpe, #20) by Bernard Cornwell

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Waterloo (Sharpe, #20)

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

June 1815: The Duke of Wellington, the Prince of Orange, and Napoleon will meet on the battlefield.…

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1. Commodore Hornblower

By: C.S. Forester

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

1812 and the fate of Europe lies in the hands of newly appointed Commodore Hornblower. Dispatched t… read more

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2. Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies

By: C.S. Forester

3.13

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

Horatio Hornblower, now Admiral, sails over seas as challenging as any in his victorious career. As… read more

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3. Hornblower and the Atropos

By: C.S. Forester

3.13

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Horn… read more

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4. Beat to Quarters

By: C.S. Forester

4.25

Format: None pages, Paperback

June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua-a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty h… read more

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5. Young Bloods (Revolution, #1)

By: Simon Scarrow

4.11

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

YOUNG BLOODS is the first gripping novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Wellington and Napoleonquar… read more

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6. The Generals (Revolution, #2)

By: Simon Scarrow

4.00

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

The second in this epic quartet of novels focusing on two giants of European history, Wellington an… read more

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7. The Fields Of Death (Revolution, #4)

By: Simon Scarrow

4.04

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

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8. Lord Hornblower

By: C.S. Forester

4.12

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

Weary of the war that he has waged nearly his entire life, Hornblower finds himself assigned an esp… read more

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9. Lieutenant Hornblower

By: C.S. Forester

4.12

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

In this gripping tale of turmoil and triumph on the high seas, Horatio Hornblower emerges from his … read more

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10. Hornblower and the Hotspur

By: C.S. Forester

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

April 1803. The Peace of Amiens is breaking down. Napoleon is building ships and amassing an army j… read more

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11. Waterloo (Sharpe, #20)

By: Bernard Cornwell

4.42

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

June 1815: The Duke of Wellington, the Prince of Orange, and Napoleon will meet on the battlefield.… read more

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12. The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)

By: Patrick O'Brian

4.32

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

"O'Brian is one author who can put a spark of character into the sawdust of time, and The Ionian Mi… read more

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"Puddings, my dear sir?' cried Graham. Puddings. We trice 'em athwart the starboard gumbrils, when sailing by and large."

-Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)

"I do not like to sound discontented neither,' said Pullings, 'nor to crab any ship I belong to; but between you and me, Doctor, between you and me, she is more what we call a floating coffin than a s…"

-Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)

"Having taken proper notice of the complexity of the machine [...] the infinity of ropes and cords, the sails, the varying forces that act upon them, and the skill required to manage the whole, direct…"

-Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)

"Oh well,' said Jack: and then, 'Did you ever meet Bach?' 'Which Bach?' 'London Bach.' 'Not I.' 'I did. He wrote some pieces for my uncle Fisher, and his young man copied them out fair. But they were …"

-Patrick O'Brian, The Ionian Mission (Aubrey & Maturin, #8)

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13. Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)

By: Patrick O'Brian

4.41

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

"[O'Brian's] Aubrey-Maturin series, 20 novels of the Royal Navy in the Napoleonic Wars, is a master… read more

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"You do not mean there is danger of peace?", cried Jack."

-Patrick O'Brian, Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)

"They played, not beautifully but deep, ignoring their often discordant strings and striking right into the heart of the music they knew best, the true notes acting as their milestones. On the poop ab…"

-Patrick O'Brian, Desolation Island (Aubrey & Maturin, #5)

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14. The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)

By: Patrick O'Brian

4.41

Format: 355 pages, Paperback

An essential of the truly gripping book for the narrative addict is the creation of a whole, solidl… read more

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"At one time Stephen had been marooned on a bare rock in the South Atlantic, and his only drink was the warm rainwater that remained in the guano-filled hollows. It had been more disagreeable than Mrs…"

-Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)

"...looking angrily at the wombat: and a moment later, 'Come now, Stephen, this is coming it pretty high: your brute is eating my hat.' 'So he is, too,' said Dr. Maturin. 'But do not be perturbed, Jac…"

-Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)

"You are a reasonably civil, complaisant creature on dry land,' said Stephen, 'but the moment you are afloat you become pragmatical and absolute, a bashaw - do this, do that, gluppit the prawling stra…"

-Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)

"Stephen Maturin sipped his scalding coffee, the right Mocha berry, brought back from Arabia Felix in the pilgrim dhows, and considered. He was naturally a reserved and even a secretive man: his illeg…"

-Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War (Aubrey & Maturin, #6)

15. The Reverse of the Medal

By: Patrick O'Brian

3.20

Format: None pages, Paperback

Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., ashore after a successful cruise, is persuaded by a casual acquaintance… read more

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16. Hornblower During the Crisis

By: C.S. Forester

3.85

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Although unfinished at the time of C. S. Forester's death, Hornblower During the Crisis delivers a … read more

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17. The Letter of Marque

By: Patrick O'Brian

4.23

Format: None pages,

Captain Jack Aubrey, a brilliant and experienced officer, has been struck off the list of post-capt… read more

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18. The Surgeon's Mate (Aubrey & Maturin, #7)

By: Patrick O'Brian

4.40

Format: 382 pages, Paperback

"Vividly detailed 19th-century settings and dramatic tension punctuated with flashes of wry humor m… read more

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"(She) threw Stephen a quick, apologetic glance and ran into the house. She might be in a strange hurry of spirits, but she moved with the perfect, unconscious grace that had always touched him, and h…"

-Patrick O'Brian, The Surgeon's Mate (Aubrey & Maturin, #7)

19. The Mauritius Command

By: Patrick O'Brian

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

"O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin volumes actually constitute a single 6,443-page novel, one that should ha… read more

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20. Flash for Freedom (The Flashman Papers #3)

By: George MacDonald Fraser

4.21

Format: 343 pages, Paperback

A game of cards leads Flashman from the jungle death-house of Dahomey to the slave state of Mississ… read more

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21. Ship of the Line

By: C.S. Forester

3.66

Format: 325 pages, Paperback

May 1810, seventeen years deep into the Napoleonic Wars. Captain Horatio Hornblower is newly in com… read more

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22. Eagles at War (Eagles of Rome, #1)

By: Ben Kane

3.46

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the author of The Forgotten Legion, the first in a gripping three-part series based on actual … read more

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23. Under the Eagle (Eagle, #1)

By: Simon Scarrow

4.43

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

Simon Scarrow's brilliant adventure novels about the Roman army appear with stunning new covers. It… read more

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24. Flashman and the Mountain of Light (The Flashman Papers, #9)

By: George MacDonald Fraser

4.42

Format: None pages, Paperback

George MacDonald Fraser's famous Flashman series appearing for the first time in B-format with an e… read more

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25. Flying Colours

By: C.S. Forester

4.38

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Forced to surrender his ship, the Sutherland, after a long and bloody battle, Captain Horatio Hornb… read more

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26. Fire and Sword (Revolution, #3)

By: Simon Scarrow

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

FIRE AND SWORD is the unputdownable third novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Wellington and Napol… read more

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27. Mr. Midshipman Hornblower

By: C.S. Forester

3.84

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Here we meet Horatio Hornblower, a young man of 17, in this Volume #1 of what becomes the 11 volume… read more

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28. H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)

By: Patrick O'Brian

4.42

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

In H.M.S. Surprise, British naval officer Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin face near-death a… read more

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"Jack, you've debauched my sloth."

-Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)

"Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer."

-Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)

"Of course I do know it is the French who are so wicked; but there are all these people who keep coming and going - the Austrians, the Spaniards, the Russians. Pray, are the Russians good now? It woul…"

-Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)

"Authority is a solvent of humanity: look at any husband, any father of a family, and note the absorption of the person by the persona, the individual by the role. Then multiply the family, and the au…"

-Patrick O'Brian, H.M.S. Surprise (Aubrey & Maturin, #3)

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29. The Old Lion

By: Jeff Shaara

4.24

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara, The Old Lion a brilliant novel tracing the life… read more

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30. Churchill's Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of The Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII

By: Damien Lewis

4.41

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

In the bleak moments after defeat on mainland Europe in winter 1939, Winston Churchill knew that Br… read more

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  • military fiction
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31. From Crimea with Love: Misadventures in the Making of Sharpe’s Rifles

By: Jason Salkey

3.95

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

In the summer of 1992, Jason Salkey was cast in a role that would change his life forever. Sharpe’s… read more

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Commodore Hornblower

C.S. Forester

4.25

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Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies

C.S. Forester

3.13

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Hornblower and the Atropos

C.S. Forester

3.13

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Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile - 57 B.C.

Josephine Bailey , Kristiana Gregory

3.90

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4.25

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Carolyn Meyer

3.81

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C.S. Forester

3.13

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