What I'm Reading Now and Have Just Finished

[SeekHer]

For an excellent period Historical Fiction books dealing with, The Rev War the works of C. C. Humphreys titled:
Jack Absolute,
The Blooding of Jack Absolute
Absolute Honour
and these are also set in the same period
The French Executioner
Blood Ties ...

For the Spanish American War the series by Raymond M Saunders titled:
Fenwick Travers and the Panama Canal,
Fenwick Travers and the Years of Empire
Fenwick Travers and the Forbidden Kingdom
are a real hoot--done in the style of George MacDonald Fraser of Flashman fame

Crimean War period is done by two authors, Garry Douglas titled:
Soldiers in the Mist
The Devils Own
The Valley of Death
and also by the author Max Hennessey titled:
Soldier for the Queen
Blunted Lance
The Iron Stallions

The Raj period is handles by V. A. Stuart writing about Alex Sheridan in:
Victors and Lords
The Sepoy Mutiny
Massacare at Cawnpore
The Cannons of Lucknow
The Heroic Garrison #5
and Allan Mallinson titled:
Honorable Company
A Regimental Affair
A Close Run Thing
A Call To War
The Sabre's Edge
Rumours Of War

American Civil War period is covered by, Bernard Cornwell of Sharp fame titled:
Rebel
Copperhead
Battleflag
The Bloody Ground
Harold Coyle of aviation fame, titled:
Look Away
Until the End
Beula Land
Simon Hawke of the Time Wars series titled:
Sons of Glory
Sons of Glory, Call to Battle
John Jakes of the Kent Family Chronicles titles:
North & South
Love & War
Heaven & Hell

British Regency perod by T. F. Banks titled:
Memoirs Of A Bow Street Runner - Volume 01: The Thief Taker-
Memoirs Of A Bow Street Runner - Volume 02: The Emperor's Assassin
also by David Liss
The Coffee Trader
A Spectacle Of Corruption
A Conspiracy Of Paper

French & Indian War period is covered by the great works of James Fenimore Cooper titled:
The Deerslayer
The Last Of The Mohicans
The Leatherstocking Saga (5 vols. in 1)
the historian Robert Leckie has titled:
Blood Of The Seventeen Fires
Forged in Blood
The Blood Born
and the great Kenneth Roberts
Arundel
Boon Island
Lydia Bailey
Moreau de St. Mary's American Journal
Northwest Passage
Oliver Wiswell
Rabble In Arms
The March to Quebec
Trending Into Maine
The Kenneth Roberts Reader
Captain Caution/The Lively Lady (2 vols. in 1)

Alamo is covered by Jon Myers' classic titled:
The Alamo
Paul I. Wellam titled: The Iron Mistress
Stephen Harrigan titled: The Gates of the Alamo
and Brian Kaufman titled: The Breach

Plains Indian Wars are covered by Evan S. Connell titled:
Son of the Morning Star
and by Thomas Berger titled:
Little Big Man
The Return Of Little Big Man
A different read by Douglas C. Jones titled:
Arrest Sitting Bull
The Treaty Of Medicine Lodge
A Creek Called Wounded Knee
The Court Martial Of General George Armstrong Custer
Remember Santiago
The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin

For a great Victorian/Regency Who-dun-it series by Lee Jackson titled:
A Metropolitan Murder
London Dust
The Last Pleasure Garden

Finally the superb series by Allan W. Eckert titled:
A Sorrow In Your Heart
Court Martial Of Daniel Boone
Gateway To Empire
Twilight Of Empire
Wilderness Empire
The Wilderness War
The Frontiersmen
The Conquerors
That Dark And Bloody River

[SeekHer]

Just started re-reading the Lost Regiment series by William R. Forstchen author of the Gamester Wars and others...I have just finished number three in the nine that I've got.

I like him a little better then Harry Turtledove who is one of my favourite authors...

[MiddleAgedKen]

Some good tips there; thanks, SeekHer.

Just finished:
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life, Walter Isaacson

Reading now:
Wilderness of Spring, Edgar Pangborn
Liberal Fascism, Jonah Goldberg
R.E. Lee (vol. 2), Douglas Southall Freeman

[HTRN]

Turtledove is pretty good - I really liked Guns from the South. It seems all it took for the South to win was 100,000 Russian Assault Rifles.


HTRN

[dfwmtx]

I began and finished "Alas, Babylon" this past weekend.

[First Shirt]

I began and finished "Alas, Babylon" this past weekend.

WOW! I haven't seen that in print in YEARS! Where did you find a copy, and do they have anymore?

[Rod]

Plains Indian Wars are covered by Evan S. Connell titled:
Son of the Morning Star
and by Thomas Berger titled:
Little Big Man
The Return Of Little Big Man
A different read by Douglas C. Jones titled:
Arrest Sitting Bull
The Treaty Of Medicine Lodge
A Creek Called Wounded Knee
The Court Martial Of General George Armstrong Custer
Remember Santiago
The Autobiography Of Benjamin Franklin

May I suggest another author who died before his vision was finished? He wanted to write a series that encompassed the Indian Wars from the Fetterman Massacre to Wounded Knee. He only made it as far as the Nez Perce flight to Canada before succumbing to colon cancer. Read more here.

Terry C. Johnston's
Plainsmen Series
Sioux Dawn[/i] Fetterman Massacre
Red Cloud’s Revenge
The Stalkers
Black Sun
Devil’s Backbone
Shadow Riders
Dying Thunder
Blood Song
Reap the Whirlwind
Trumpet on the Land
A Cold Day in Hell
Wolf Mountain Moon
Ashes of Heaven
Cries From the Earth
Lay the Mountains Low
Turn the Stars Upside Down Second book on the Nez Perce flight

He also had a series about the mountain men which was very well written.

[Darrell]

I finally finished Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative, and started rereading the first volume.

If you like reading about native Americans, try George Bird Grinnell's The Fighting Cheyennes.

[Joe ex PNG]

I always got a kick out of "Alas, Babylon". How often does one find a post-apopcalyptic classic written in their own back yard? Sadly, due to runaway development and a hippie infestation, running to the woods of central Florida is not really a SHTF secnario.

Back to the topic- I'm now reading "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" by... Richard Feynman. And just finished "Carnage and Culture" by Victor Davis Hanson.

[dfwmtx]

First Shirt,
Found it on the Internet with a small treasure trove of other post-apocalyptic books.